To the north it opens onto Parry Channel while its southern end merges with Franklin Strait.

There are several named islands within the sound, including: Lock, Vivian, Prescott, Pandora, Otrick, Barth, De la Roquette, and Gibson.

Sir John Franklin passed through the strait in 1846 during an unseasonably warm summer,[citation needed] since typically Peel Sound is frozen.

[citation needed] In 1858 Francis Leopold McClintock tried to penetrate it and was blocked by ice.

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