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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.
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.
Auyuittuq National Park is located on the Cumberland Peninsula of Baffin Island in Nunavut.The park is located within the Arctic Circle.The park covers 21,470 square kilometres (8,290 sq mi) [3] [note 1] and is located partially within the Penny Highlands and contains the 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) Penny Ice Cap.
Nettilling Lake (/ ˈ n ɛ tʃ. ɪ l. ɪ ŋ / [3]) is a cold freshwater lake located toward the south end of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. [1] It is the 30th largest lake in the world by area, and the world's largest lake on an island, with an area of 5,542 km 2 (2,140 sq mi) and a maximum length of 123 km (76 mi). [4]
The Baffin Mountains are a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island and Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada.The ice-capped mountains are part of the Arctic Cordillera and have some of the highest peaks of eastern North America, reaching a height of 1,525–2,146 metres (5,003–7,041 ft) above sea level. [1]
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]
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.
Tasiujaq—which has several arms—is a natural Qikiqtaaluk Region waterway through the Arctic Archipelago that separates Bylot Island from Baffin Island. Starting in 1903, Scottish entrepreneurs had set up a small whaling station at Igarjuaq. [Notes 3] Other non-Inuit (Qallunaat) traders established trading posts in the area. There was some ...