Baffin Island Political Map Pictures

Baffin Island on Canada Political Map Pictures

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Baffin Island Political Map

Baffin Island (Inuktitut: Qikiqtaaluk, French: Île de Baffin, Old Norse: Helluland) in the Canadian breadth of Nunavut is the better affiliate of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the better island in Canada and the fifth better island in the world, with an breadth of 507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi) and has a citizenry of 11,000 (2007 estimate). Named afterwards English charlatan William Baffin, it is acceptable that the island was accepted to Pre-Columbian Norse of Greenland and Iceland and may be the breadth of Helluland, announced of in the Icelandic sagas (the Adventure of Erik the Red (Eiríks adventure rauða) and the Grœnlendinga saga).

Iqaluit, the basic of Nunavut, is amid on the southeastern coast. Until 1987, the boondocks aggregate the name Frobisher Bay with the bay on which it is located.

To the south lies Hudson Strait, amid Baffin from Quebec on the mainland. To the south of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait amid the island from the Melville Peninsula on the mainland. To the east are Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, with Greenland beyond. The Foxe Basin, the Gulf of Boothia and Lancaster Sound abstracted Baffin Island from the blow of the archipelago to the west and north.

The Baffin Mountains run forth the northeastern bank of the island and are a allotment of the Arctic Cordillera. Mount Odin is the accomplished peak, with an acclivity of at atomic 2,143 m (7,031 ft) (some sources say 2,147 m (7,044 ft). Another aiguille of agenda is Mount Asgard, amid in Auyuittuq National Park, with an acclivity of 2,011 m (6,598 ft). Mount Thor, with an acclivity of 1,675 m (5,495 ft), is said to accept the greatest absolutely vertical bead of any abundance on Earth, at 1,250 m (4,100 ft).

The two better lakes on the island lie in the south-central allocation of the island: Nettilling Lake (5,066 km2 (1,956 sq mi)) and Amadjuak Lake added south.

The Barnes Ice Cap, in the average of the island, has been beat back at atomic the aboriginal 1960s, back the Geographical Branch of the then-Department of Mines and Technical Surveys beatific a three-man analysis aggregation to the breadth to admeasurement isostatic backlash and cross-valley appearance of the Isortoq River. Baffin Island is traversed by the northwesterly band of according breadth and longitude.