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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.
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 island of Greenland after the main island and one of the 100 largest islands in the world.
The peninsula is administered as part of the Avannaata municipality. The main settlements are Qaarsut and Niaqornat on the northwestern shore, Saqqaq on the southeastern shore, at the foot of the Livets Top mountain (1,150 metres (3,773 ft)), [3] and Qeqertaq on a small island just off the southern shore, at the base of the peninsula.
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.
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.
Nares Strait (Danish: Nares Strædet; French: Détroit de Nares) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. From south to north, the strait includes Smith Sound, Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel.
Cape Robertson is located in the northern shore of Murchison Sound, Baffin Bay. [1] it rises at the end of a promontory, south of the fjord where the Morris Jesup Glacier has its terminus, east of the mouth of Robertson Fjord and west of MacCormick Fjord. [2] The cape has an elevation of 4 meters (13 feet). [3]
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]