Somerset Island

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut, Canada, NW of Baffin Island. 9,594 sq. mi. (24,848 sq. km).

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Somerset Island Prep held a Jet Ski graduation ceremony that took place on the water and complied with coronavirus social distancing measures.

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Somerset Island Preparatory is Key West’s only charter high school, established a decade ago.

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Unlike bowheads, belugas will travel hundreds of miles to reach their “day spa” on the Cunningham Inlet along Somerset Island, to the northwest of Baffin.

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The passage led to the lee of North Somerset Island, and a towering headland of basalt protected the ship from the fury of the south wind.

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Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*�Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific.

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