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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]:
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.
Nuussuaq is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, a vast archipelago of small islands on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay. [5] The settlement straddles a small rock spur jutting off Nuussuaq Peninsula , on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay , an indentation of Baffin Bay. [ 5 ]
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.
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 waters around the peninsula are that of Baffin Bay. To the south and southwest the peninsula is bounded by Disko Bay , an inlet of Baffin Bay. It is separated from Qeqertarsuaq Island by Sullorsuaq Strait , known in Danish as Vaigat Strait, which connects Disko Bay with Baffin Bay.
The Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuary, named for J. Dewey Soper, is located on the western side of Baffin Island from Bowman Bay to the Koukdjuak River. It is an 8,159 km 2 (3,150 sq mi) area that was classified a wetland of international importance via the Ramsar Convention on May 24, 1982.
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.