ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP NAUTICAL CHART Baffin Bay canada greenland Lancaster Sound

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ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP NAUTICAL CHART
[Thismap is not a reproduction or from a scan, and it's printed on a thick papermatting surface. My Map collection, passed down by my grandfather, has beenstored flat and folded]
Baffin Bay canada greenland, Bylot Island, Lancaster Sound, Borden Penisula
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Baffin Bay
(
Inuktitut
:
Saknirutiak Imanga
;
[3]
Greenlandic
:
Avannaata Imaa
;
[4]
French
:
Baie de Baffin
),
[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
.
[6]
: Art.23
It is sometimes considered a sea of
North Atlantic Ocean
.
[1]
[2]
[7]
It is connected to the Atlantic via
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
2
(31,000 sq mi), known as the
North Water
, opens in summer on the north near
Smith Sound
.
[8]
Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region.
The
Borden Peninsula
[1]
is a
peninsula
on northern
Baffin Island
, in
Nunavut
, Canada. It lies some 80 km south of
Devon Island
(Cape Warrender), from which it is separated by
Lancaster Sound
. Northeastern Borden Peninsula is home to
Sirmilik National Park
.
Bylot Island
[
pronunciation?
]
lies off the northern end of
Baffin Island
in
Nunavut
Territory, Canada.
Eclipse Sound
to the southeast and
Navy Board Inlet
to the southwest separate it from Baffin Island.
Parry Channel
lies to its northwest. At 11,067 km
2
(4,273 sq mi) it is ranked
71st largest island in the world
and
Canada's 17th largest island
. The island measures 180 km (110 mi) east to west and 110 km (68 mi) north to south and is one of the largest
uninhabited islands
in the world. While there are no permanent settlements on this
Canadian Arctic island
,
Inuit
from
Pond Inlet
and elsewhere regularly travel to Bylot Island. An Inuit seasonal hunting camp is located southwest of
Cape Graham Moore
.
The island's
mountains
are part of the
Byam Martin Mountains
, which is part of the
Baffin Mountains
of the
Arctic Cordillera
. In addition to
Angilaaq Mountain
,
Malik Mountain
,
Mount St. Hans
, and
Mount Thule
are notable. Tay Bay is on the west coast. Vertical cliffs along the coastline are made up of
Precambrian
dolomite
. There are numerous glaciers. The western shore faces Navy Board Inlet. The island's north shore, facing
Lancaster Sound
, is a
polar bear
maternity den area.
[1]
Beluga
,
bowhead whale
,
harp seal
,
narwhal
, and
ringed seal
frequent the area.
The island is named for the
Arctic
explorer
Robert Bylot
, who was the first
European
to sight it in 1616.
[2]
The whaling captain William Adams was the first to prove the island's insular nature in 1872.
[3]
In the 2000s, Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, began to develop a
tote road
from its Mary River Mine, and harbour infrastructure in
Milne Bay
—a small, shallow arm of at the confluence of Eclipse Sound and Navy Board Inlet which separates Bylot Island from
Baffin Island
.
[4]
[5]
Milne Inlet flows in a southerly direction from Navy Board Inlet at the confluence of Eclipse Sound.