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{{Short description|Waterway between Greenland and Canada}}
[[Image:Map indicating Robeson Channel, Nunavut, Canada.png|right|thumb|225px|Robeson Channel, Nunavut, Canada.{{legend|#ffff66|Ellesmere Island, Nunavut}}{{legend|#ffffcc|Greenland}}]]
'''Robeson Channel''' ({{coord|82|00|N|061|30|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:2000000|display=inline,title|name=Robeson Channel}}) is a body of water lying between [[Greenland]] and [[Canada]]'s northernmost island, [[Ellesmere Island]]. It is the most northerly part of [[Nares Strait]], linking [[Hall Basin]] to the south with the [[Arctic Ocean]] to the north. The [[Newman Fjord]] in Greenland has its mouth in the Robeson Channel.

It is about {{convert|50|mi|abbr=on}} in length and between {{convert|11|and|18|mi|abbr=on}} wide. [[Alert, Nunavut|Alert]], the world's most northerly permanently inhabited settlement, lies nearby.

It was named during the 1871 [[Polaris Expedition]], for American [[George Robeson]], Secretary of the Navy in the [[Ulysses S. Grant]] administration.

==Further reading==
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* Chow, R. K. ''Near-Surface Current in Robeson Channel''. Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, 1975. 
* Dunbar, Moira, and John E. Keys. ''Robeson Channel Ice Drift and Oceanographic Measurements 1970-1975''. Ottawa: [Defense Research Establishment Ottawa?], 1980. 
* Serson, H. V. ''Robeson Channel Experiment Main and Radar Camp-Plans and Operations''. Ottawa: Dept. of National Defence, 1971. 
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{{Channels of Nunavut}}

[[Category:Straits of Greenland]]
[[Category:Channels of Qikiqtaaluk Region]]
[[Category:Canada–Greenland border]]
[[Category:International straits]]


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