Dease Strait

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  Nunavut
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  Northwest Territories

Dease Strait is an east–west waterway between the mainland's Kent Peninsula and Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is part of the Northwest Passage. At its eastern end, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". wide, is Cambridge Bay; to the west it widens to approximately Script error: No such module "convert". and becomes Coronation Gulf. The strait is Script error: No such module "convert". long.[1]

The Strait is named after the Canadian explorer Peter Warren Dease, who was the first to navigate it along with the Scottish explorer Thomas Simpson.

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