ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP TERRITORY NAUTICAL CHART Davis Strait Disko Island Canada

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ANTIQUE ORIGINAL MAPTERRITORY 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]
Canada Greenland
Davis Strait
Godthaabs FJord to Disko Island
Cumberland Peninsula
See Photos for condition.
Davis Strait
, bay of the northern
Atlantic Ocean
, lying between southeastern
Baffin Island
(
Canada
) and southwestern
Greenland
.
The strait separates the depths of
Baffin Bay
(north) from those of the
Labrador Sea
(south) and forms part of the
Northwest Passage
, a route through the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
linking the Atlantic and
Pacific
oceans. It is approximately 400 miles (650 km) north to south and 200 to 400 miles wide. Along the shore of Greenland, the
West Greenland Current
carries relatively warm water northward, while the cold
Labrador Current
transports masses of ice southward along Baffin Island’s eastern shore into the Labrador Sea and the Atlantic.
Icebergs
are
discharged
into the waters by glacial action from the vast interior
Greenland Ice Sheet
. The Baffin Island coast has few permanent settlements because the main shipping routes are in the warmer waters near the Greenland coast. The navigation season for the principal Greenland ports (including
Paamiut
,
Nuuk
, and
Sisimiut
) extends from midsummer to late fall but with great annual variations.
Cumberland Peninsula
is a peninsula in the southeastern part of
Baffin Island
in
Nunavut
, Canada. It is located between 64°56' and 67°57' north latitude, and 61°56' to 68° west longitude.
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The
Arctic Circle
crosses the peninsula, with the
Labrador Sea
to the southeast, and the
Davis Strait
to the east, which lies between the peninsula and
Greenland
. The
Cumberland Sound
lies to the southwest, separating the Cumberland Peninsula from the
Hall Peninsula
, which is also part of Baffin Island.
The Cumberland Peninsula is part of the
Arctic Tundra
biome
—the world's coldest and driest biome—as is the rest of Baffin Island. The terrain is mountainous, and Mt. Odin, near the Arctic Circle, rises 7,044 ft (2,147 m).
The peninsula is home to
Pangnirtung
, which lies on the southwest coast, and the
Auyuittuq National Park
.