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Baffin Island. / 68°N 70°W / 68; -70 ( Baffin Island) Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land ), [5] in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland ), and the fifth-largest island in the world.
Mar 17, 2017 · Baffin is hardly half a million square kilometres of barren wilderness. More than 17,000 people (48 per cent of Nunavut’s population) live here and on small surrounding islands in nine coastal communities including Iqaluit, the territory’s capital and only city. Nunavut is Canada’s fastest growing region, and Iqaluit had the largest ...
This is a fragment of the Relief Map of Canada from the National Atlas of Canada printed in 1998. Baffin Island is part of the Territory of Nunavut, established in 1999. The island was first discovered by Europeans in 1576 and it was named for William Baffin, a 17th-century English navigator. The Inuktitut name for the island is Qikiqtaaluk ...
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It was likely here that one of the great ice sheets that covered most of Canada originated some 18,000 years ago, and ice lingered on the island until almost 1,500 years ago. Vast areas are still sheathed in ice year-round. Geologically, Baffin Island is a continuation of the eastern edge of the Canadian Shield, which tilts upward in the east to fo...
Wildlife Baffin Bay is the wintering ground for narwhal, walrus, beluga and bowhead whales, as well as bearded and harp seals. The island is also the nesting ground for millions of birds, including thick-billed murres, kittiwakes and fulmars. The Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuaryprotects the summer nesting area for some 2 million migratory birds...
Early Settlement and Exploration Around 2000 BCE the peoples of the Pre-Dorset Culture began to establish themselves in northern Baffin Island. These peoples were succeeded by the Dorset Culture, so named because the first physical evidence of this culture was found near Cape Dorset off the island's southwestern coast. Between the 11th and 13th cen...
In 1967 it was created as Baffin region, Northwest Territories, from most of what was formerly Franklin district, and it took on its present borders with the creation of Nunavut in April 1999. The largest of Nunavut’s three regions, Baffin extends southward from the northern tip of Ellesmere Island. It encompasses all of Ellesmere, Baffin ...
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