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Definition of Baffin Bay

1. Noun. A body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter.

Definition of Baffin Bay

1. Proper noun. A sea between Greenland and Nunavut. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Baffin Bay

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Ice and its Movements in Baffin Bay. A very thorough study of the movements of the ice in the region of Baffin Bay, us a result of currents and weather ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Infrared spectra of sterol fraction from Baffin Bay sediment (upper), sterol fraction of sediment from San Pedro Basin (middle), and mixture of campe- ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"beyond them to the eastward until the vicinity of Baffin Bay has been reached. On the border of the Atlantic low pressure area are found Greenland, Iceland, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Baffin Bay and BAFFIN LAND, an arctic sea and an insular tract named after the explorer William Baffin. Baffin or Baffin's Bay is part of the long strait ..."

5. Round about the North Pole by William John Gordon (1907)
"... XI Baffin Bay Sir Humphrey Gilbert—Sir Martin Frobisher—His first voyage—The fateful stone—First meeting with the Eskimos—The Cathay Company—Second ..."

6. The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada by E. Jerome Dyer (1898)
"-PS- i XT • Baffin Bay. In a supplement to the appendix of Capt. ... rocks of the west coast of Baffin Bay as " gneiss and micaceous quartz-rock, ..."

7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"Baffin Bay . . Baffin Bay . . Baffin Bay . . Hudson Strait An elliptical curve drawn round the foregoing points, having as its axis a line extending from ..."

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