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Record 1 2024-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

Hudson Strait is an arm of the sea connecting the Atlantic Ocean with Hudson Bay and Foxe Channel and separating Baffin Island from the Ungava Peninsula of Québec.

OBS

Coordinates: 62° 0’ 0" N, 70° 0’ 0" W.

OBS

One of the toponyms of pan-Canadian significance with an officially approved form in both official languages. The list, established and adopted by the Treasury Board and the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC), has been promulgated as a schedule of the TB Directive 1983-58 of November 23, 1983.

OBS

Usage on federal maps: Pan-Canadian names should be written in both official languages on bilingual maps and in the corresponding language on French and English versions of a map and in narrative form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Le détroit d'Hudson est un bras de mer reliant l'océan Atlantique à la baie d'Hudson et au bassin Foxe, et séparant l'île de Baffin de la péninsule d'Ungava, dans le Nouveau-Québec.

OBS

Coordonnées : 62° 0' 0" N, 70° 0' 0" O.

OBS

Un des toponymes d'intérêt pancanadien ayant une forme distincte reconnue dans les deux langues officielles. La liste, établie et adoptée par le Conseil du Trésor (CT) et la Commission de toponymie du Canada (CTC), a été diffusée en annexe à la Directive 1983-58 du CT du 23 novembre 1983.

OBS

Usage sur les cartes fédérales : Les noms d'intérêt pancanadien doivent être inscrits dans les deux langues officielles sur les cartes bilingues, et dans la langue appropriée sur les versions anglaise et française d'une carte et d'un texte suivi.

OBS

Usage de la majuscule : Dans une liste, sur une carte géographique, ou sur un panneau de signalisation, le générique porte la majuscule. Dans un texte suivi en français, le générique porte la minuscule.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (Canadá)
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Record 2 2020-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Ports
  • River and Sea Navigation
CONT

The inner roadstead affords anchorage for vessels with local knowledge.

CONT

The main approach channel to the inner roadstead is 8 miles long and the fairway has a least depth of 8. 8 m [meters]. The main approach channel is reached from the White Sea(Beloye More) through Kandalakshskiy Zaliv.... The inner roadstead includes the area up to 0. 3 miles from the shore...

OBS

inner road: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • inner roads

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Ports
  • Navigation fluviale et maritime
CONT

[...] une rade intérieure [...] assez bien abritée et une rade extérieure [...] fort mauvaise, car non protégée de la haute mer.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maneuvering of Ships
CONT

Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull. This can be achieved in several ways—seacocks or hatches can be opened to the sea, or holes may be ripped into the hull with brute force or with explosives. Scuttling may be performed to dispose of an abandoned, old, or captured vessel; to prevent the vessel from becoming a navigation hazard; as an act of self-destruction to prevent the ship from being captured by an enemy force(or, in the case of a vessel engaged in illegal activities, by the authorities) ;as a blockship to restrict navigation through a channel or within a harbor; to provide an artificial reef for divers and marine life; or to alter the flow of rivers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvre des navires
DEF

Pour un capitaine, fait de couler volontairement son navire.

CONT

Le sabordage (ou sabordement) est un terme de marine désignant le fait de couler volontairement un bateau par l'équipage […] qui le contrôle et consiste à créer une ou plusieurs voies d'eau. Les moyens utilisés peuvent être l'ouverture de vannes ou de sas, ou bien la création d'une ouverture dans la carène en dessous de la ligne de flottaison à l'aide d'outils ou d'explosifs. Dans la marine de guerre, le sabordage évite qu'un navire passe entre les mains de l'ennemi et permet à l'équipage d'échapper à la capture […]. Le sabordage sert aussi à obstruer un passage, à se débarrasser d'un navire en fin de vie ou à créer un récif artificiel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Maniobras de los buques
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Record 4 2017-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

A channel between Europe(Spain and Gibraltar) and Africa(Morocco and Ceuta) connecting the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
DEF

Détroit entre l'Espagne [Europe] et le Maroc [Afrique] unissant la Méditerranée et l'Atlantique (15 km de large).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
DEF

Brazo de mar entre España y Marruecos, que une el Atlántico con el Mediterráneo.

OBS

estrecho de Gibraltar: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda escribir "estrecho" con inicial minúscula en la denominación "estrecho de Gibraltar", pero indica que puede escribirse con mayúscula si se emplea en solitario: "el Estrecho".

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Record 5 2017-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A shallow stretch of seawater, such as a sound, channel, bay, or seawater lake, near or communicating with the sea and partly or completely separated from it by a low, narrow, elongate strip of land...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Étendue d'eau marine peu profonde au cœur d'un atoll, ou située entre la côte et un récif barrière, communiquant avec la mer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Masa de agua poco profunda con un estuario, poco profundo y restringido, al mar.

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Record 6 2017-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
Universal entry(ies)
FR
classification system code, see observation
FRA
classification system code, see observation
OBS

A country of western Europe between the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.

OBS

Capital: Paris.

OBS

Inhabitant: Frenchman, Frenchwoman.

OBS

France: common name of the country.

OBS

FR; FRA: codes recognized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
FR
classification system code, see observation
FRA
classification system code, see observation
OBS

État d'Europe occidentale.

OBS

Capitale : Paris.

OBS

Habitant : Français, Française.

OBS

France : nom usuel du pays.

OBS

FR; FRA : codes reconnus par l'ISO.

PHR

aller en France, visiter la France

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
FR
classification system code, see observation
FRA
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Estado de Europa occidental.

OBS

Capital: París.

OBS

Habitante: francés, francesa.

OBS

Francia: nombre usual del país.

OBS

FR; FRA: códigos reconocidos por la ISO.

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Record 7 2016-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
OBS

When sea level rises with the incoming tide to the point where it is higher than the river level upstream from the rock shelf, the seawater forces its way upstream against the flow of the river and through the narrow point in the channel. The resulting rapids, whirlpools and eddies create the impression that the falls have actually reversed.

OBS

A notable example occurs on the Saint John River at Saint John, NB, where the very high tides of the Bay of Fundy create the reversing effect. Other reversing falls in Canada are at Wager Bay, Ford Lake, and Barrier Inlet, Hudson Strait, both located in the Northwest Territories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Glaciology
  • Water Transport
CONT

U. S. Coastguard Icebreaker "Polar Sea" taking scientists and support personnel on a cruise through the icebreaker channel out to the open sea. Every year the icebreaker clears a channel through the sea ice into McMurdo Sound so that a large cargo ship can dock at the end of the season, prior to the onset of winter.

CONT

In the last few years, a giant iceberg perched north of Ross Island has prevented the ocean current from flushing broken sea ice out of the icebreaker channel.

Key term(s)
  • ice-breaker channel
  • ice breaker channel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Glaciologie
  • Transport par eau
OBS

Lorsque le détroit est déclaré «zone active de surveillance des glaces» et que des glaces sont présentes dans le chenal de navigation, les navires de passage doivent être escortés par un brise-glace de taille suffisante.

OBS

Pluriel : des brise-glaces.

OBS

brise-glaces (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oceanography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A narrow projection of the sea from the main body of water.

CONT

Hudson Strait is an arm of the sea connecting the Atlantic Ocean with Hudson Bay and Foxe Channel and separating Baffin Island from the Ungava Peninsula of Québec.

OBS

loch: [An] Irish and Scottish Gaelic term for a lake or a sea inlet. It has been anglicised as lough, although this is pronounced the same way as loch.

OBS

lough: Gaelic term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Océanographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Étendue d'eau marine étroite et longue, enserrée entre les terres.

CONT

Un loch [...] ce n'est pas une bête datant du Néanderthal, mais à la manière d'un fjord, un bras de mer formé à l'époque glaciaire.

OBS

bras de mer : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Oceanografía
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Zona marítima alargada y estrecha.

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Record 10 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A line, belt, or fringe of skerries, parallel to and extending along a coast for hundreds of kilometers, seemingly acting as a breakwater or "guard."

CONT

Norway is a land of rugged, pine-topped mountain ranges, valleys gouged out by glaciers, and narrow deep-sided inlets from the sea known as fjords. A line of offshore islands called the skerry guard shields the coastline and forms a protected inland waterway.

CONT

A chain of islands locally called the "skerry guard" or "reef guard" (Norwegian: skjærgården) protect the coast.

OBS

A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea.... The island fringe of Norway is such a group of glacially formed skerries(called a skjærgård) ;many of the cross fjords are so arranged that they parallel the coast and provide a protected channel behind an almost unbroken succession of mountainous islands and skerries.

OBS

skaergaard; skerry-guard: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • skærgaard

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Côte basse de plaine proglaciaire ennoyée par la déglaciation, des eaux peu profondes entourant un semis d'îlots ou d'écueils («skjärgaard», ou jardin d'écueils en norvégien).

CONT

Côte à skjärs et à drumelinoïdes de la baie de James, au nord de l'embouchure de la Grande Rivière.

OBS

côte à skjär : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oceanography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A continuously sloping elongated discrete depression found in fans or abyssal plains and customarily bordered by levees on one or both sides.

OBS

sea channel : term used at Natural Resources Canada-Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Océanographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Dépression allongée dans un bassin océanique, morphologiquement semblable à une vallée terrestre [...]

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Sea between England and Irland, connected with Atlantic Ocean on north through North Channel and South through St. George's Channel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Partie de l'Atlantique entre la Grande-Bretagne et l'Irlande.

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

Intended to obtain ocean circulation parameters such as sea surface temperatures, low altitude winds, water vapor and cloud liquid water content on an all-weather basis, the SMMR is a ten channel instrument capable of receiving both horizontally and vertically polarized radiation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
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Record 14 2001-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sonar and Underwater Detection (Military)
DEF

A sound transmission channel produced in sea water by a combination of pressure and temperature changes in the depth range between 2500 and 15, 000 feet(750 and 4500 meters) ;utilized by sonar systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sonar et détection sous-marine (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 15 1987-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
DEF

A river that flows through or between two or more states.

CONT

In international rivers that form the boundary between two countries, the middle of the principal channel(Thalweg) is considered the boundary line. For rivers flowing through two or more countries and navigable from the open sea, the authority to regulate and control navigation and other river uses has been a subject of dispute. For some rivers, special regulatory bodies have been established.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
DEF

Voie d'eau naturelle traversant le territoire de plusieurs Etats ou leur servant de frontière qui, outre la navigation, présente un intérêt économique (pêche, utilisation de la force hydro-électrique).

CONT

Constituent par ex. des fleuves internationaux : le Rhin, le Danube, le Congo, le Mékong.

OBS

Bien que certaines conventions (...) aient posé des principes généraux (...) il n'existe pas de régime uniforme des fleuves internationaux et la réglementation est insuffisante face aux problèmes posés par l'utilisation industrielle de ces fleuves (pollution, construction de centrales nucléaires).

Spanish

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Record 16 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A violent circular eddy in the sea, produced by a powerful tidal current flowing through an irregular channel, or by the meeting of 2 currents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Surélévation de la surface du liquide dans un écoulement, avec adoucissement de la pente ou resserrement du chenal à l'amont d'un obstacle ou d'un rétrécissement.

Spanish

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