Baffin Bay
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Baffin Bay
named after William Baffin , 17th-century English navigator
Example Sentences
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"Baffin Bay is very significant because it's the first time we've found evidence for the Younger Dryas cosmic impact event in the marine record," Kennett said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025
“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
The trail starts near the western edge of the ice cap and continues across one of the island’s largest snow-and-ice-free expanses to Sisimiut and the Davis Strait, which separates the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 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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