Jones Sound

Jones Sound
Jones Sound, Nunavut, Canada. Nunavut Greenland Northwest Territories
Coordinates	76°0′N 086°00′W / 76.000°N 86.000°W / 76.000; -86.000 (Jones Sound)Coordinates: 76°0′N 086°00′W / 76.000°N 86.000°W / 76.000; -86.000 (Jones Sound)
Basin countries	Canada

Settlements	Uninhabited

Jones Sound is an uninhabited waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It lies between Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island. At its northwestern end it is linked by several channels to Norwegian Bay; at its eastern end it opens via Glacier Strait into Baffin Bay.

The first known European to sight the sound was the English explorer William Baffin in 1616 who named it after one of his patrons. The next European to pass it was John Ross in 1818.

Sounds of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Larsen Melville Viscount Melville

Kivalliq Region	Roes Welcome

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Beare Clarke Cumberland Digges Eclipse Eureka Hassel Jones Lancaster Massey McDougall Nansen Oliver Peel Smith Tay

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