Kane Basin

{{Short description|Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada}}

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|name= Kane Basin

|image= File:Map indicating Kane Basin, Nunavut, Canada.png

|caption = Kane Basin, Nunavut, Canada.{{legend|#ffff66|Nunavut}}{{legend|#ffffcc|Greenland}}{{legend|#ffccff|Northwest Territories}}

|location= Smith Sound / Kennedy Channel

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|oceans= Arctic Ocean

|pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut

|countries= Canada

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|cities= Uninhabited

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Kane Basin ({{langx|da|Kane Bassin}}; {{langx|fr|Bassin (de) Kane}}) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait. It is approximately {{cvt|180|km}} in length and {{cvt|130|km}} at its widest.

It is named after the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane, whose expedition in search of Franklin's lost expedition crossed it in 1854. Kane himself had named it "Peabody Bay," in honor of philanthropist George Peabody, the major funder of Kane's expedition.{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3998 |title=KANE, ELISHA KENT |publisher=University of Toronto Press |access-date=2010-03-28 |quote=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.}} Currently Peabody Bay is a bay at the eastern side of the basin, off the southwestern end of the Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 88[http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=gl&UF=-2083938&UN=-2892965&DG=ISLS McGary Oer, Greenland]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}