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The Baffin Bay has three branches, which are named as follows (counterclockwise on the map above): Alazan Bay on the north (green), Cayo del Grullo (purple) and Laguna Salada (blue). [6] Several ephemeral streams , including San Fernando, Santa Gertrudis and Los Olmos, flow into the bay, but only when it rains.
Below the Atlantic layer are Baffin Bay Deep Water and Baffin Bay Bottom Water, both of which are cold and saline. On a net annual basis, approximately 1.7 Sv of water flows out of the Arctic Ocean through Baffin Bay, making the bay the second most important conduit between the Arctic Ocean and the rest of the world's oceans. [31]
The Remote Peninsula extends northwards into the Baffin Bay from the island's mainland. It is bounded by Gibbs Fiord and the Stewart Valley in the east, the Baffin Bay in the north, Sam Ford Fiord in the east, and in the south by Walker Arm, the latter fjord's offshoot.
Riviera Beach was founded in 1907 by Minnesota-developer Theodore Koch, who purchased land along Baffin Bay and built a resort community named Riviera Beach. At this time, Koch also developed the main town of Riviera about 10 miles (16 km) to the west. Land divided into plots were sold to farmers in the area after survey.
It is an arm of Baffin Bay in northeastern Baffin Island. The inlet flows in a southwestern direction and includes a northern arm that juts off the main inlet close to the mouth. Nova Zembla Island and Round Island are located near the mouth of Coutts Inlet. The inlet is frequented by narwhals. [1]
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; [4] Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; [5] French: Baie de Baffin; [6] Danish: Baffinsbugten), [a] located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. [8]:
Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island. [2] Although the Qikiqtaaluk Region is the most commonly used name in official contexts, several notable public organizations, including Statistics Canada prior to the 2021 Canadian census, [3] use the older term Baffin Region.
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