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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.
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.
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]
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.
Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island . Its length is about 230 km (140 mi) and its width varies from about 40 km (25 mi) at its outlet into the Davis Strait to roughly 20 km (12 mi) towards its inner end.
Qikiqtarjuaq is situated above the Arctic Circle and off eastern Baffin Island. Both Davis Strait and Baffin Bay run to the east, and the Baffin Mountains are located to the west, more specifically the Arctic Cordillera mountain range. It is also one of the Nunavut communities closest to Greenland.
Qikiqtaaluk (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ [1]) formerly Sillem Island [2] is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.It is the second largest (after Bylot Island) of the several hundred islands and islets that are located in Baffin Bay, immediately off the northern coast of Baffin Island.