Baffin Bay

bay between Greenland and Canada

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Baffin Bay is a large body of water located between Greenland and Canada in the Arctic region. It is important because it serves as a major shipping route and contains significant marine resources, while also being a key area for Arctic research and wildlife habitat.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 7 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Baffin Bay, Bays of Baffin Island and Bodies of water of the Qikiqtaaluk Region.

Its subject is documented across 95 Wikipedia language editions.

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Area: 689000
Image: Iceberg at Baffin Bay.jpg
Width: 550

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Encyclopedic overview

Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ᓴᒃᓂᕈᑎᐊᒃ ᐃᒪᖓ Saknirutiak Imanga; Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; French: Baie de Baffin; Danish: Baffinsbugten), 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. It is sometimes considered a sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via the Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about 80,000 km (31,000 sq mi), known as the North Water, opens in summer on the north near Smith Sound. Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region.

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