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  2. Baffin Bay - Wikipedia

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    Baffin Bay was the epicenter of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in 1933. This is the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle. It caused no damage because of its offshore location and the small number of the nearby onshore communities. The northwestern part of the bay remains one of the most seismically active regions in eastern Canada.

  3. Baffin Island - Wikipedia

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    Topography of Baffin Island Coast of the Remote Peninsula in Sam Ford Fjord, northeast Baffin Island Southern tip of Baffin Island Mount Thor, a large cliff on Baffin Island Map of Thule expansion in Canada and Greenland Pangnirtung. Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, is located on the southeastern coast.

  4. Baffin Bay (Texas) - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Canadian Arctic Rift System - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Davis Strait - Wikipedia

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    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. By the 1650s it was used for whale hunting.

  7. Disko Island - Wikipedia

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    Disko 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 km 2 (3,312 sq mi), [1] making it the second largest of Greenland after the main island and one of the 100 largest islands in the world.

  8. Module:Location map/data/Canada Baffin Island - Wikipedia

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    Module:Location map/data/Canada Baffin Island is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Baffin Island. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.

  9. Category:Baffin Bay - Wikipedia

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    Landforms of Baffin Bay (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Baffin Bay" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes