Ice, however, blocked further progress to the north, through the channel, and to the west, into Barrow Strait.

It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector of Barrow Strait.

The sound's southern mouth opens to the Parry Channel, and beyond that, to the Barrow Strait.

It spent most of the past season in Barrow Strait, charting the 'crossroads of the Arctic'.

Barrow Strait is a shipping waterway in Northern Canada's territory of Nunavut.

Like Maxwell Bay to the east, it is an arm of Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait.

Svalbard bears had lower thyroid hormone levels than polar bears from the Barrow Strait (Resolute) area.

During the summer months they are also found in Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait, and in the inlets adjoining them.

The two major segments of the Boothia Uplift, separated by the east-trending Barrow Strait, had different deformational histories.

This was the case in Barrow Strait of the Northwest Passage before 1985 and, according to the United States, is still the case to-day.

Ringed seals were most numerous in Barrow Strait and Wellington Channel, their density decreasing westward and northward.

It is located in Lancaster Sound at the junction of Prince Regent Inlet and Barrow Strait.

The relationship between the distribution of ringed seals, Phoca hispida, and habitat was examined in Barrow Strait, Northwest Territories.

It lies in the Barrow Strait, between Bathurst Island (to the north) and Lowther Island (to the southeast).

Bowhead whale surveys were conducted in 2004 in Barrow Strait, Admiralty Inlet and Eclipse Sound.

Thick-billed murres and black guillemots in the Barrow Strait area, N.W.T., during spring: distribution and habitat use.

He searched for tracks and other evidence of such movements along both sides of Barrow Strait, during the times that they were reported to have occurred, and found none.

Strong currents flow west from Barrow Strait along the southern coast of Devon Island, with a substantial water transfer south into Prince Regent Inlet.

Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait, Wellington Channel and the Parry Islands were discovered on this expedition.

Through Barrow Strait, the Fox passed the same waters that held the Enterprise and Investigator nine years earlier during the McClure Arctic Expedition.

During the "spring" periods of 1974–1976, Uria lomvia and Cepphus grylle in the central Canadian Arctic were concentrated in the Barrow Strait area.

In their first season, constantly battling the elements, they investigated Barrow Strait, later sailing around Cornwallis Island before returning to spend the winter at Beechy Island.

Snow cover and date of ice consolidation were not identified as important habitat variables in 1984 and 1985 when overall distribution of ice in Barrow Strait was very different.

Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, and Prince Regent Inlet have potential as marine shipping routes (DIAND 1982).

It lies at the north end of BAFFIN ISLAND and is connected to Barrow Strait on the west.