Cekungan Kane

Cekungan Kane
Cekungan Kane, Nunavut, Kanada. Nunavut Greenland Teritorial Barat Laut
Cekungan Kane Lokasi di Nunavut
Letak	Smith Sound / Selat Kennedy
Koordinat	79°04′30″N 73°05′10″W / 79.07500°N 73.08611°W / 79.07500; -73.08611 (Dampier Bay)^[1]
Asal aliran laut	Samudra Arktik
Terletak di negara	Kanada

Pemukiman	Tak dihuni

Cekungan Kane (Denmark: Kane Bassin; Prancis: Bassin (de) Kane) adalah sebuah jalur perairan Arktik yang terbentang antara Greenland dan Pulau Ellesmere, ujung utara Kanada. Cekungan tersebut menghubungkan Smith Sound dengan Selat Kennedy dan membentuk bagian dari Selat Nares. Cekungan tersebut memiliki panjang sekitar 180 km (110 mi) dan lebar 130 km (81 mi).

Cekungan tersebut mengambil nama dari penjelajah Amerika Serikat Elisha Kent Kane, yang melakukan ekspedisi dalam rangka mencari ekspedisi hilang Franklin yang melintasinya pada 1854. Kane sendiri menamainya "Teluk Peabody," dalam menghormati dermawan George Peabody, pendana besar dari ekspedisi Kane.^[3] Saat ini, Teluk Peabody adalah teluk di sisi timur cekungan tersebut, lepas ujung barat daya Gletser Humboldt di Greenland utara.^[4]^[5]

Bacaan tambahan

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.). Radar Imagery of Arctic Pack Ice Kane Basin to North Pole. Hanover, N.H.: The Division, 1968.
Hobbs, William Herbert. Discovery and Exploration Within the Area to the West of the Kane Basin. 1939.
Kravitz, Joseph. Sediments and Sediment Processes in Kane Basin, a High Arctic Glacial Marine Basin. [Boulder, Colo.?]: University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, 1982.
Marentette, Kris Allen. Late Quaternary Paleoceanography in Kane Basin, Canada and Greenland. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989. ISBN 0-315-43760-X

Referensi

↑ "Kane Basin". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
↑ "Kane Basin". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
↑ "KANE, ELISHA KENT". University of Toronto Press. Diakses tanggal 2010-03-28. A believer in the hypothesis of an open polar sea, he persuaded Grinnell, American financier George Peabody, the United States Navy Department, and several scientific societies to sponsor a second expedition to go north from Baffin Bay to the shores of the "Polar Sea" in search of Franklin. [...] The Advance then proceeded up the west coast of Greenland and into the sound Kane named Peabody Bay (later renamed Kane Basin) where, by the end of August, its northward progress was stopped by the ice.
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