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The Canadian Arctic Rift System is a branch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that extends 4,800 km (3,000 mi) into the North American continent. It is an incipient structure that diminishes in degree of development northwestward, bifurcates at the head of Baffin Bay and disappears into the Arctic Archipelago.
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; [4] Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; [5] French: Baie de Baffin; [6] Danish: Baffinbugten), [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]:
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 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.
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.
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.
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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