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Baffin Island

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Baffin Island
An island of eastern Nunavut, Canada, west of Greenland. It is the fifth-largest island in the world.
Baffin Island
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(Placename) the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq. km (184 000 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Baffin Island - the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"
Arctic Ocean - ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs


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In May 2000, as spring was just reaching Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, a famed local hunter took Nweeia out on the ice searching the open water for those tusk-bearing, high-Arctic whales.
That's one weird tooth: and other bulletins on the elusive narwhal by Milius, Susan / Science News
At school he is researching Matthew Henson, and he is fascinated by the adventures of this fellow African American who went to the North Pole--so fascinated that he runs off to see the Arctic for himself, heading north to Baffin Island by train, small plane and dogsled, helped by various people along the way.
Napoli, Donna Jo. North by Rohrlick, Paula / Kliatt
In the western Atlantic, they range from Baffin Island and Labrador in the north, extending as far south as North Carolina in the winter.
Bartonella henselae in porpoise blood by Breitschwerdt, Edward B. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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