Smith Sound is an uninhabited Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Baffin Bay with Kane Basin and forms part of the Nares Strait.
The sound was discovered in 1616 by William Baffin and originally named Sir Thomas Smith's Bay after the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smyth. By the 1750s it regularly appeared on maps as Sir Thomas Smith's Sound, though no further exploration of the area would be recorded until John Ross' 1818 expedition. By this time it had begun to be known simply as Smith Sound.
In 1852 Edward Augustus Inglefield penetrated a little further than Baffin, establishing a new furthest north in North America.
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