Legacy
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Among others, the following features are named after him:
- Nares Land in Greenland.
- Nares Strait between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.
- Mount Nares, part of the Churchill Mountains in Antarctica.
- Nares Lake in southern Yukon between Bennett Lake and Tagish Lake.
- Nares Deep, the deepest part of the North Atlantic.
- Nares Cape, on Ellesmere Island.
- Nares River, from Nares Lake past Carcross to Bennett Lake.
- Nares Mountain, in Yukon, named in 1883 by Lt Schwatka of the US Army.
- Nares Inlet, Ontario
- County of Nares in Queensland, Australia.
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