In these extreme northern latitudes of Baffin Bay, by-catch consisted primarily of gelatinous snailfish, Arctic skate, and four-beard rockling. |
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Smoking by staff and inmates at the Baffin Correctional Centre will soon be history. |
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This study demonstrates that bowhead whales are capable of navigating through the heavy pack ice in central Baffin Bay. |
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In these extreme northern latitudes of Baffin Bay, bycatch consisted primarily of gelatinous snailfish, Arctic skate, and four-beard rockling. |
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A circular wall surrounding the terraced parking area may feature the municipal emblems of Baffin communities. |
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The committee came to that conclusion after holding three regional meetings with hunters and trappers organizations in the Baffin, Kivalliq and Kitikmeot. |
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The peak of pupping by ringed seals along the coast of southeastern Baffin Island occurs in early April, though obviously some pups are born earlier or later. |
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They're Yorkshiremen, you see, and their impressionable parts have been cured over the centuries, like Baffin Island blubber, by spindrift and coal smoke. |
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For the Baffin trip, McLean sewed three sizes of packable kites rigged with reins and steering bars and borrowed Inuit designs to fashion flexible-wood gear sledges. |
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Secondary filming began in July 1976 at Baffin Island, where the ski jump for the opening credits was filmed. |
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The nearest countries are Canada, to the west and southwest across Baffin Bay, and Iceland, east of Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. |
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This leaves the large rectangle north of the coast, south of Parry Channel and east of Baffin Island. |
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On August 8, 1585, the English explorer John Davis entered Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island. |
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These six wolf ecotypes were named West Forest, Boreal Forest, Arctic, High Arctic, Baffin, and British Columbia. |
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Then, the Baffin Island Current and Labrador Current transport cold and less saline water southward along the Canadian coast. |
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Many historians identify Helluland with Baffin Island and Markland with Labrador. |
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On August 8, 1585, under the employ of Elizabeth I the English explorer John Davis entered Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island. |
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However, other cliffs on Baffin Island, such as Polar Sun Spire in the Sam Ford Fjord, or others in remote areas of Greenland may be higher. |
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They then travelled to Greenland and hitched a lift across the iceberg-covered waters of Baffin Bay in a tiny boat. |
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In Greenland, interpretation of 3D seismic on the Pitu Baffin Bay block and southern Greenland acreage well advanced. |
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Cairn said it was currently running a 3-D seismic programme to survey blocks in Baffin Bay and southern Greenland. |
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The North Atlantic fin whale has an extensive distribution, occurring from the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea, northward to Baffin Bay and Spitsbergen. |
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This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Quebec and Resolution Island off Baffin Island. |
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Frobisher's expedition landed in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, not far from the settlement now called The City of Iqaluit which was long known as Frobisher Bay. |
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Based on radiocarbon dating of roughly 150 samples of dead plant material with roots intact, collected from beneath ice caps on Baffin Island and Iceland, Miller et al. |
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In 2012 Canadian researchers identified possible signs of Norse outposts in Nanook at Tanfield Valley on Baffin Island, as well as on Nunguvik, Willows Island and Avayalik. |
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Sea ice in the winter months inhibits surface flow into Baffin Bay. |
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With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north. |
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It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait. |
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More than 600 bears are killed per year by humans across Canada, a rate calculated by scientists to be unsustainable for some areas, notably Baffin Bay. |
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There's also a marathon between the Innuit community of Arctic Bay and the mining camp at Nanasivik on the northwestern corner of Baffin Island in Canada's Arctic. |
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You'll find yourself in Iqaluit, a town of fewer than 7,000 people on the southeastern coast of Baffin Island, directly across the Davis Strait from Greenland. |
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From east to west, the direction of most early exploration attempts, expeditions entered the passage from the Atlantic Ocean via the Davis Strait and through Baffin Bay. |
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