Baffin Bay
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Baffin Bay
named after William Baffin , 17th-century English navigator
Example Sentences
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Across this large area, they studied many different habitats from the interior Barnes Ice Cap to the coast of Baffin Bay.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
“As you go to the Arctic and see what’s happening with your own eyes … it’s depressing,” said University of Washington marine biologist Kristin Laidre, who has studied polar bears in Baffin Bay.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
Whaling ships spied them in upper Baffin Bay, just east of the entrance to the Passage, on 26 July; and shortly thereafter the expedition vanished without trace.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019
Sea ice meets land as seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft along the Upper Baffin Bay coast on March 27, 2017 above Greenland.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2018
I remembered that Black Star's father was brought to our village by a trapper from Baffin Bay and mated to a Siberian husky.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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