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Foxe Basin

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Foxe Basin
An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between the Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.

Foxe Basin [fɒks]
n
(Placename) an arm of the Atlantic in NE Canada, between Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island


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These explorations continued on until 1940 when the British-Canadian Arctic Expedition completed most of the geographical investigation of Foxe Basin.
The western edge of Baffin Island coincides with the hinge line between the Foxe Basin and structural uplands of Archean gneisses and Proterozoic metasediments that are cut by an extensive swarm of diabase dykes.
 
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