Back Baffinbaai Afrikaans خليج بافن Arabic Badea de Baffin AST Baffin dənizi Azerbaijani باففین کؤرفزی AZB Баффин диңгеҙе Bashkir Celuk Baffin BAN Мора Бафіна Byelorussian Мора Бафіна BE-X-OLD Бафиново море Bulgarian
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga,[1]) is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean.[2][3][4] It is between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland. It connects to the Atlantic by Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.
People lived in the bay area from around 500 BC. First there were the Dorset and then Thule and Inuit people. It was reached by Europeans in 1585. William Baffin described the bay in detail in 1616. He is who the bay and the island are named after. People cannot travel on the bay most of the year because of the ice cover and large amount of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas.
Baffin Bay was the epicenter of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in 1933. This is the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle.
- ↑ "Wissenladen.de". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
- ↑ Baffin Bay Archived 2013-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- ↑ Baffin Bay, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line
- ↑ Reddy, M. P. M. (2001). Descriptive Physical Oceanography. Taylor & Francis. p. 8. ISBN 978-90-5410-706-4. Retrieved 26 November 2010.