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The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador 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 John Davis (1550–1605), who explored the area while seeking a Northwest Passage.
Transcriptions. The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is 130 km (81 mi; 70 nmi) wide.
4,800 km (3,000 mi) The Canadian Arctic Rift System is a major North American geological structure 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 interconnected rifts that formed during the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
In a study published in Gondwana Research, a team of researchers reconstructed the area around the Davis Strait’s plate tectonic movements from a whopping 33 to 61 million years ago, which ...
841,000 km 2 (324,700 sq mi) Average depth. 1,898 m (6,227 ft) Max. depth. 4,316 m (14,160 ft) References. [1][2] The Labrador Sea (French: mer du Labrador; Danish: Labradorhavet) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast.
To the south lies Hudson Strait, separating Baffin Island from mainland Quebec. [14] South of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait, [15] which separates the island from the Melville Peninsula [16] on the mainland. To the east are Davis Strait [17] and Baffin Bay, [18] with Greenland beyond. [14]
Baffin Bay is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by the Baffin Island in the west, Greenland in the east, and Ellesmere Island in the north. It connects to the Atlantic through the Davis Strait, and to the Arctic through several narrow channels of Nares Strait. It is a northwestern extension of the North Atlantic and Labrador Sea.
Clyde River (Syllabics: ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ, [7] Inuktitut: Kangiqtugaapik "nice little inlet" [8]) is an Inuit hamlet located on the shore of Baffin Island 's Patricia Bay, off Kangiqtugaapik, [9] an arm of Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, of Nunavut, Canada. It lies in the Baffin Mountains which in turn form part of the Arctic ...