Prince of Wales Strait

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The Prince of Wales Strait is a strait in the Northwest Territories of Canada separating Banks Island to the northwest from Victoria Island to the southeast. It extends from Viscount Melville Sound in the northeast to Amundsen Gulf in the southwest. From late winter it is filled by ice that usually does not break up until August. Its namesake, Prince of Wales Island, lies over two-hundred miles to the southeast.

The strait is an alternative route for the Northwest Passage, a sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In 1969, the oil tanker SS Manhattan was forced to use it after ice had blocked McClure Strait.

 

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