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Baffin

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Baf·fin  (bfn)
A district and administrative region of eastern Nunavut, Canada, including Baffin Island, the Queen Elizabeth and Parry islands, and Melville Peninsula.
Baffin, William 1584?-1622.
English explorer who led several expeditions (1612-1616) in search of the Northwest Passage.
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Baffin [ˈbæfɪn] N Baffin Bay → Bahía f de Baffin
Baffin Island → Tierra f de Baffin
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And all this happened far away to the north, beyond Labrador, beyond Hudson's Strait, where the great tides heave the ice about, north of Melville Peninsula--north even of the narrow Fury and Hecla Straits--on the north shore of Baffin Land, where Bylot's Island stands above the ice of Lancaster Sound like a pudding-bowl wrong side up.
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