Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; French: Baie de Baffin; Danish: Baffinbugten), located between Baffin Island and...
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the Northwest Territories, such as some smaller islands: Qikiqtaaluk in Baffin Bay and Qikiqtaaluk in Foxe Basin. Norse explorers referred to it as Helluland...
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Baffin Bay is a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre. Located near the Gulf of Mexico, Baffin Bay forms part of the boundary between...
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Pacific, during the course of which he was the first European to discover Baffin Bay situated between Canada and Greenland. He was also responsible for exceptional...
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Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Baffin Island, an Arctic island of Nunavut Baffin Bay, a sea between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans Baffin Mountains, a mountain...
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Bowhead whale (section Baffin Bay and Davis Strait)
the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, 2) the Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin stock, 3) the Baffin Bay and Davis Strait stock, 4) the Sea of Okhotsk stock,...
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separates Bylot Island (to the north) from Baffin Island (to the south). To the east, it opens into Baffin Bay via Pond Inlet, and to the north-west into...
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between 1845 and 1848. The bay has the same name as HMS Terror, one of the two ships of the expedition. The ships entered Baffin Bay in 1845 on their quest...
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Luanda Bay Walvis Bay Saldanha Bay Table Bay False Bay (coast-wise from north to south) North Water Polynya Baffin Bay Davis Strait Home Bay Labrador...
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The main extensions include Baffin Bay in Upper Laguna Madre, Red Fish Bay just below the Saltillo Flats, and South Bay near the Mexican border. As a...
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The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), Canada with a moment magnitude of 7.4 at 18:21:35 Eastern...
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combination of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The Baltic Sea Baffin Bay The Persian Gulf The Red Sea The Australasian Mediterranean Sea (including...
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William Edward Parry (section 1818: Baffin Bay)
taking Ross's route anti-clockwise around Baffin Bay (which Ross was charting) he was able to cross the bay straight to Lancaster Sound. Fighting his...
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coast of Greenland. The bay constitutes a wide southeastern inlet of Baffin Bay. To the south the coastline is complicated with multiple waterways of...
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example, in the Baffin Bay wintering grounds, narwhals tend to dive deep within the precipitous coasts, typically south of Baffin Bay. This suggests differences...
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Davis Strait (category Bodies of water of Baffin Island)
Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer...
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the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait. It is a marginal sea of the Atlantic. The sea...
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15,464 58,880 Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Bay of Biscay Black Sea Caspian Sea Celtic Sea Greenland Sea Baffin Bay Gulf of Cadiz Ligurian Sea Mediterranean...
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Canadian Arctic Rift System (redirect from Labrador Sea–Baffin Bay rift system)
extending from the Labrador Sea in the southeast through Davis Strait, Baffin Bay and the Arctic Archipelago in the northwest. It consists of a series of...
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Devon Island (category Islands of Baffin Bay)
uninhabited island (no permanent residents) in the world. It is located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the largest members...
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The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. The world's largest bay, geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent...
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Laurentide ice sheet (section Baffin ice flow)
the adjacent Labrador and Baffin ice sheets. The primary lobes flow (1) towards Manitoba and Saskatchewan; (2) toward Hudson Bay; (3) towards the Gulf of...
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Baffin Island Current (or Baffin Current) is an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean, along Baffin Island...
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Edward Parry. Ross sailed anti-clockwise around Baffin Bay repeating the observations made by William Baffin two hundred years before. In August, he entered...
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opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, Qimusseriarsuaq, means "the great dog sledding place". The bay was named after Robert Dundas...
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B28FI thermonuclear bombs on a Cold War "Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Bay when a cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they...
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Adriatic Sea Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Bay of Biscay Black Sea Azov Sea Caspian Sea Celtic Sea Greenland Sea Baffin Bay Gulf of Cadiz Ligurian Sea Mediterranean...
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The Bay of Biscay (/ˈbɪskeɪ, -ki/ BISS-kay, -kee) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western...
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Frobisher, John Davis, Henry Hudson and William Baffin. In 1670 the incorporation of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) led to further exploration of the...
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Disko Island (category Islands of Baffin Bay)
Island (Greenlandic: Qeqertarsuaq, Danish: Diskoøen) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of 8,578 km2 (3,312 sq mi)...
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