Inuit (72.7%), non-Aboriginal (25.3%), First Nations (0.7%), Métis (0.5%)[4]
Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land),[5] in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is 507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi) with a population density of 0.03/km2; the population was 13,039 according to the 2021 Canadian census;[2] and it is located at 68°N70°W / 68°N 70°W / 68; -70 (Baffin Island)[1]. It also contains the city of Iqaluit (with a population of around 7,000), which is the capital of Nunavut.
^ ab"Baffin Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
^ abcCite error: The named reference 2021censusNU was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Does not include Kinngait (1,396) and Qikiqtarjuaq (593). Both of which do not lie on Baffin Island proper
^2006 Aboriginal Population Profile for Nunavut communities.
^Baffin Island / Île de Baffin (Formerly Baffin Land)
BaffinIsland (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas...
The BaffinIsland wolf (Canis lupus manningi), also known as the BaffinIsland tundra wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf which resides exclusively on Baffin...
interest from scientists. Robert Bylot and William Baffin were the first Europeans to sight Devon Island in 1616. William Edward Parry charted its south...
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; French: Baie de Baffin), located between BaffinIsland and the west coast of Greenland...
BaffinIsland 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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^J Formerly Jenny Lind Island ^K Formerly Gateshead Island Of the more than 36,000 islands, only 11 are populated. BaffinIsland, the largest, also has...
Arctic Kingdom. retrieved on 9 June 2014 Polar Bears and Glaciers of BaffinIsland Webinar on Vimeo. Arctic Kingdom. 2014. retrieved on 9 June 2014 George...
Bylot Island[pronunciation?] lies off the northern end of BaffinIsland in Nunavut Territory, Canada. Eclipse Sound to the southeast and Navy Board Inlet...
of BaffinIsland, the Belcher Islands, Akimiski Island, Mansel Island, Prince Charles Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island, Baillie-Hamilton Island, Cornwallis...
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...
The Baffin Mountains are a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of BaffinIsland and Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. The ice-capped mountains...
The English silk-weaver William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) became a navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt...
Labrador Peninsula, Willows Island at the southern part of BaffinIsland, Pond Inlet (Nunguvik) in the far north of BaffinIsland. When Sutherland was asked...
Gay Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a BaffinIsland offshore island located in Frobisher...
William Baffin were the first Europeans to record sighting the then-unnamed Ellesmere Island (Baffin named Jones and Smith Sounds on the island's south...
m near-vertically. Considering a truly vertical drop, Mount Thor on BaffinIsland in Arctic Canada is often considered the highest at 1370 m (4500 ft)...
elevation of 1,675 m (5,495 ft) located in Auyuittuq National Park, on BaffinIsland, Nunavut, Canada. The mountain is located 46 km (29 mi) northeast of...
This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi), sorted...
on a nameless island in Nettilling Lake on BaffinIsland, Canada. The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake is Treasure Island in Mindemoya Lake...
Eglinton Island, Prince Patrick Island and parts of Melville Island, were transferred to the Inuvik Region. BaffinIsland "Baffin region, Nunavut, Canada"....
between BaffinIsland and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut and Resolution Island, off Baffin...
La Push, Washington James Island (Chile) James Island (sanctuary), island of India James Island, a name for BaffinIsland used by 18th-century French...
Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and BaffinIsland in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer...
A peninsula (Latin: paeninsula from paene "almost" and insula "island") is a piece of land that is bordered mostly by water but connected to mainland....
community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, located on northern BaffinIsland. To the Inuit the name of the place "is and always has been Mittimatalik...
largest ice caps, including the Penny Ice Cap on BaffinIsland. It is bounded to the east by Baffin Bay, Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea while its northern...
remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet called the Barnes Ice Cap, on central BaffinIsland. During the Late Pleistocene, the Laurentide ice sheet reached from...
Koch Island is one of the Canadian Arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located in Foxe Basin, it is an uninhabited BaffinIsland offshore...
the BaffinIsland caribou. Neither one of these clades has yet been formally described or named. Jenkins et al. (2012) said that "[BaffinIsland] caribou...
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