Hans Island (Inuktitut/Greenlandic: Tartupaluk; French: Île Hans; Danish: Hans Ø) is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring 1.3 km (0.5 sq mi), 1,290 metres (0.80 mi) long and 1,199 metres (0.745 mi) wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait—the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea. Hans Island is the smallest of three islands located in Kennedy Channel; the others are Franklin Island and Crozier Island.