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{{Short description|Natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago}}
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The '''Parry Channel''' ({{langx|iu|ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ}}, {{lang|iu-Latn|Tallurutiup Imanga}}) is a natural waterway through the central [[Canadian Arctic Archipelago]]. Its eastern two-thirds lie in the territory of [[Nunavut]], while its western third (west of [[110th meridian west|110° West]]) lies in the [[Northwest Territories]]. It runs east to west, connecting [[Baffin Bay]] in the east with the [[Beaufort Sea]] in the west. Its eastern end is the only practical entrance to the [[Northwest Passage]]. Its western end would be a natural exit from the archipelago were it not filled with ice. The channel separates the [[Queen Elizabeth Islands]] to the north from the rest of Nunavut.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadapage.org/Nunavut.htm|title=Nunavut: Our newest territory|accessdate=2008-06-02|publisher=thecanadapage.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513174332/http://www.thecanadapage.org/Nunavut.htm|archivedate=2008-05-13}}</ref>

Named parts of the Channel are, from east to west, [[Lancaster Sound]], [[Barrow Strait]], [[Viscount Melville Sound]] and the [[McClure Strait]]. On the south are [[Baffin Island]], [[Admiralty Inlet (Nunavut)|Admiralty Inlet]] and the [[Brodeur Peninsula]] of Baffin Island, [[Prince Regent Inlet]] which leads to the large [[Gulf of Boothia]], [[Somerset Island (Nunavut)|Somerset Island]], [[Peel Sound]] which is the main route south, [[Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut)|Prince of Wales Island]], the ice-choked [[M'Clintock Channel]], [[Victoria Island (Canada)|Victoria Island]], the narrow [[Prince of Wales Strait]] and [[Banks Island]]. On the north are [[Devon Island]], [[Wellington Channel]], [[Cornwallis Island (Nunavut)|Cornwallis Island]], [[McDougall Sound]], [[Bathurst Island (Nunavut)|Bathurst Island]], [[Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)|Melville Island]] and [[Prince Patrick Island]].

Parry Channel is named after Arctic explorer [[William Edward Parry]], who in 1819 got as far as Melville Island before being blocked by ice at the McClure Strait. The next ship to get this far west was part of the [[Edward Belcher]] expedition in 1850.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Finlayson |first=Douglas |title=Parry Channel |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=1 December 2014 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/parry-channel}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Channels of Nunavut}}

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