Nares Strait Nares Strait Nares Strait (; ) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that is the northern part of Baffin Bay where it meets the Lincoln Sea. From south to north, the strait includes Smith Sound, Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel. During 1962–64 a 20 km by 10 km ice island drifted southward from the Lincoln Sea through the Nares and Davis Straits to the Atlantic Ocean (Labrador Sea). Nares strait has a nearly permanent current from the north, powered by the Beaufort Gyre, making it harder to traverse for ships coming from the south.
West Coast Sentinel to 1954, accessible using Trove, the on-line newspaper retrieval service. West Coast Sentinel West Coast Sentinel is a weekly newspaper published Thursdays by Australian Community Media in Ceduna, South Australia. It was first founded in mid-1912, and has been published continuously since then. It is now part of the Fairfax Media group. The" "West Coast Sentinel (subtitled: ""circulating throughout the Great West Coast. Eyre's Peninsula."") began publication in Streaky Bay on Friday 28 June 1912. At the time, its publishers hoped that the paper's reach would extend beyond its initial region stating, ""...although the journal is to be published at