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. Its sources are the West Greenland Current and outflow from the Arctic Ocean. Its speed is approximately 17 km (11 mi) per day.[1][2][3][4]
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The English silk-weaver William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) became a navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt...
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climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off BaffinIsland—this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, although it is well south...
northwest around the Baffin Bay, and then southeast into the BaffinIslandCurrent continuing in the same direction in the Labrador Current. Sea ice in the...
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...
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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...
Chesterfield Inlet, influenced to do so by whaler Captain George Comer and others. Baffin Islanders arrived 25 years later. John Ell, who as a young child travelled...
The Baffin ice sheet was the most northerly portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, centered in the Foxe Basin between BaffinIsland and the Melville Peninsula...
This list 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 in descending...
Channel – 700,000 km2 Cosmonauts Sea – 699,000 km2 Banda Sea – 695,000 km2 Baffin Bay – 689,000 km2 Laptev Sea – 662,000 km2 Arafura Sea – 650,000 km2 Ross...
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...
ice cap located in central BaffinIsland, Nunavut, Canada. It covers close to 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) in the area of the Baffin Mountains. It has been thinning...
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...
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...
Labrador Peninsula, Willows Island at the southern part of BaffinIsland, Pond Inlet (Nunguvik) in the far north of BaffinIsland. When Sutherland was asked...
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