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Viscount Melville Sound
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Viscount Melville Sound, Nunavut.

     Nunavut      Northwest Territories      Yukon Territory      Regions outside Canada (Alaska, Greenland)
Viscount Melville Sound is located in Nunavut
Viscount Melville Sound
Viscount Melville Sound
Location in Nunavut
Coordinates 74°15′N 105°00′W / 74.250°N 105.000°W / 74.250; -105.000 (Viscount Melville Sound)
Basin countries Canada
Settlements Uninhabited

Viscount Melville Sound is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. Forming part of the Parry Channel, it separates Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island from the Queen Elizabeth Islands. East of the sound, via Barrow Strait, lies Lancaster Sound, leading into Baffin Bay; westward lies the M'Clure Strait and the Arctic Ocean/Beaufort Sea. The sound is a part of the Northwest Passage.

In 1854, Edward Belcher abandoned his ship, HMS Resolute, in the sound while searching for John Franklin

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