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DAVIS STRAIT

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVIS STRAIT , the broad strait which separates See also:Greenland from See also:North See also:America, and connects See also:Baffin See also:Bay with the open See also:Atlantic. At its narrowest point, which occurs just where the See also:Arctic Circle crosses it, it is nearly 200 M. wide. This See also:part is also the shallowest, a See also:sounding of 112 fathoms being found in the centre, whereas the See also:depth increases rapidly both to north and to See also:south. Along the western See also:shore (Baffin See also:Land) a See also:cold current passes southward; but along the See also:east there is a warm north-See also:ward stream, and there are a few Danish settlements on the Greenland See also:coast. The strait takes its name from the explorer See also:John Davis.

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