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    Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; French: Baie de Baffin; Danish: Baffinbugten), located between Baffin Island and...
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    Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    among the three bays that extend off Baffin Bay, Alazan Bay is the largest. The entirety of Alazan Bay is surrounded by King Ranch. Alazan Bay and its neighboring...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for John Ross (Royal Navy officer)
    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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    Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island. Its...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    East of Baffin Island: Baffin Bay between Greenland and Baffin Island to Lancaster Sound at the north end of Baffin Island, or West of Baffin Island (impractical):...
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