Fram Strait

[ fram streyt ]

noun

1. a strait that connects the Greenland Sea to the Arctic Ocean: site of the Molloy Deep, the deepest place in the Arctic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fram Strait¹

First recorded in 1975–80; named after the Norwegian ship Fram, which, in an 1893 expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen, drifted for two years across the Arctic before exiting the Arctic through what is now known as the Fram Strait

Example Sentences

They put the systems at three locations in the Fram Strait, and at four depths in each location.

From Science Daily

These waterbodies are connected by the Fram Strait, which sits to the northeast of Greenland near the Svalbard archipelago.

From Science Daily

Overall, ice floes are spending 37 percent less time in the Arctic before escaping through the Fram Strait to melt in the Atlantic, or about 2.7 years on average since 2007, the researchers found.

From Washington Post

The research reinforces past studies that show losses of nearly all of the oldest and thickest ice that once covered the Arctic, and that ice floes circulate around the Arctic and out through the Fram Strait more quickly as ice cover plummets.

From Washington Post

The new analysis from scientists at the Norwegian institute relies on data captured from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago known as Svalbard through which Arctic sea ice regularly flows on its way to the North Atlantic.

From Washington Post