Rice Strait is a narrow waterway between Ellesmere Island's eastern coast and Pim Island in northern Canada's territory of Nunavut.
[1] The strait is named after Sergeant George W. Rice (born 29 June 1855 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia), the photographer on Adolphus Greely's ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, and a correspondent with the New York Herald.
He was the only Canadian on this United States Army Signal Corps sponsored expedition to the Arctic.
Rice died on 9 April 1884, before the expedition's rescue.
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