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Baffin next took service with the British East India Company, and in 1617-1619 sailed to Surat in British India, and on his return received the special recognition of the Company for valuable surveys of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf which he had made in the course of the voyage.
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It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin Island for Greenland and the Emmanuel, returning home, made a mistake in dead reckoning and mistook optical effects near Greenland at around 62 ° N for a new land.
However, this exercise had been in the planning stage since September 2003, and it took place around Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, south of Hans Island.
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Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.
As late as 1812, charts of the area only showed a dotted bulge with the words: Baffin's Bay according to the relation of W. Baffin in 1616, but not now believed.
Narwhals from Canada and West Greenland winter regularly in the pack ice of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay along the continental slope with less than 5 % open water and high densities of Greenland halibut.
To the east are Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, with Greenland beyond.
Baffin Bay makes up a large part of the border with Kenedy County.
Baffin Bay makes up much of the border with Kleberg County.
The monstrous race begotten by the Adlet was identified with inland native Americans by the Labrador and Hudson Bay tribes ; Inuit from Greenland and Baffin Land, which had no native American neighbors, use the term to refer to the half human, half canine creatures.
This inspired Martin Frobisher to sail to Baffin Island, and he returned with a mysterious black rock.
William Baffin explored the Arctic circle, the earliest mention of his name occurs in 1612, in connection with Denmark's King Christian IV's Expeditions to Greenland under the command of Captain James Hall, whom he accompanied as chief pilot.
Captain Hall was killed in a fight with the local inhabitants on the west coast of Greenland, and during the following two years Baffin served in the Spitsbergen whale-fishery, at that time controlled by England's Muscovy Company.
The following year, Baffin again sailed as pilot of the Discovery, sailing to the west of Greenland and north up through the Davis Strait, where he discovered the large bay to the north which now bears his name, together with the series of straits which radiate from its head and were named by him Lancaster, Smith and Jones Sounds, in honour of the patrons of his voyages.
Pond Inlet Gardens A Report on the Design and Operation of a Solar Greenhouse on North Baffin Island, NWT, with Particular Reference to Economic Viability of Vegetable Production for Arctic Regions.
Many historians identify Helluland with Baffin Island and Markland with Labrador.
Hans Island ( Inuktitut / Greenlandic: Tartupaluk ; ; ) is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring, long and wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait — the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea.
In 1966 he was given his first assignment by the Daily Telegraph magazine to cover other expeditions, including-climbing Sangay in Ecuador ; hunting Caribou with Eskimos on Baffin Island.
* August-John Franklin's expedition with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage is last seen entering Baffin Bay prior to its mysterious disappearance.
A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.
Later, between 1612 and 1616, William Baffin made five expeditions to the Arctic ; together with Robert Bylot, he reached and explored the Baffin Bay in 1616.
Along with Martin Frobisher's claims in Greenland and Baffin Island and Drake's claims at the tip of South America, New Albion was one of the earliest English territorial claims in the New World.
It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait.
Two further ships were equipped with handling gear, these being HMS Sancroft and ,( later renamed as Empire Baffin and Empire Ridley respectively ) both of which could handle of three-inch ( 76 mm ) pipe weighing approximately 6, 000 tons.
Bobby Lyall, along with his brother Kitikmeot Corporation president, Charlie Lyall and delegates Martina and Connie Kapolak, argued that the Government of Nunavut had spent most of the infrastructure money available from the federal government in the Baffin Region ( Qikiqtaaluk Region ).
Baffin and British
The rookeries of the Great Auk were found from Baffin Bay down to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, across the far northern Atlantic, including Iceland, and in Norway and the British Isles in Europe.
The Arctic watershed ( or drainage basin ) drains northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, most of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as parts of Yukon into the Arctic Ocean, including the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay.
There he re-examined the observations William Baffin, a previous British explorer, had made two hundred years before.
Baffin and East
Individuals are commonly recorded in the northern part of Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Baffin Bay ; off the east coast of Greenland ; and in a strip running east from the northern end of Greenland round to eastern Russia ( 170 ° East ).
In North America, it ranges along the East Coast from Chesapeake Bay to the southern half of Baffin Island and the western shore of Hudson Bay, and along the West Coast from southern California to the western shore of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
The South Baffin dialect is ( East ) Inuktitut.
It is initiated by the East Greenland Current and continued by the West Greenland Current, which brings warmer, more saline waters northwards, along the Greenland coasts up to the Baffin Bay.
Some linguists also distinguish an East Baffin dialect from either South Baffin or North Baffin, which is an Inuvialuk dialect.
Baffin and India
NOLS also has facilities in Alaska, Washington, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Yukon Territory, Baffin Island, Scandinavia, Brazil and India.
Baffin and Company
The Hudson's Bay Company moved its south Baffin operations to the neighbouring valley of Niaqunngut, officially called Apex, in 1949 to take advantage of the airfield.
Conversely, in the 1970's parts of Baffin Island failed to have the usual ice-free period in the summer, according to the book Crown of The World by Cora Cheney, 1979 Dodd, Merad, and Company New York.
A Hudson's Bay Company trading post was maintained on the island from August 1920 to August 1924, and a number of Inuit families lived on the island during that period, some of whom had been brought from Baffin Island on boats.
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Iqaluit is located on the south coast of Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay.
Iqaluit is located in the Everett Mountains rising from Koojesse ( Kuujussi ) Inlet, an inlet of Frobisher Bay, on the southeast part of Baffin Island.
Although it is generally agreed, based on the saga descriptions, that Helluland includes Baffin Island, and Markland represents at least the southern part of the modern Labrador, there has been considerable controversy over the location of the actual Norse landings and settlement.
Numerous artifacts that some attribute to the Norse Greenlanders have been found in Canada, particularly on Baffin Island and in northern Labrador.
As of 2004, the limit on bowhead whale hunting allows for the hunt of one whale every two years from the Hudson Bay-Foxe Basin population, and one whale every 13 years from the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait population.
* William Baffin sails as pilot on the Discovery for a second time.
Martin Frobisher landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in August 1576 ; He returned in 1577, claiming it in Queen Elizabeth's name, and in a third voyage tried but failed to found a settlement in Frobisher Bay.
In September 2008, Nunatsiaq News reported archaeological remains of yarn, rats, tally sticks, a carved wooden Dorset culture face mask depicting Caucasian features, and possible architectural remains, which place European traders and possibly settlers on Baffin Island not later than AD 1000.
What the source of this Old World contact may have been is unclear ; the report states: " Dating of some yarn and other artifacts, presumed to be left by Vikings on Baffin Island, have produced an age that predates the Vikings by several hundred years.
There is also a smaller Victoria Island in Nunavut, located in Amadjuak Lake on Baffin Island.
It is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea ; on the northwest by the Arctic Ocean ; on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait ; and on the south by Hudson Bay and the Canadian mainland.
Baffin Island was reached on the 18 August 1576, where the expedition met some of the local natives.
A significant showcase for the Telidon system was set up for the Third General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, hosted in Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in July 1983.
English navigators Martin Frobisher and Henry Hudson were the first Europeans known to have visited the area ( although Viking sailors, coming from Greenland, may have made occasional landings and hunting treks on Baffin Island in the 11th and 12th centuries ).
Upernavik is located within Upernavik Archipelago, a vast archipelago of small islands on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay.
It breeds on deep lakes in the tundra region of Alaska and northern Canada as far east as Baffin Island, and in Russia east of the Lena River.
Because it is on the small island, one of Canada's national historic sites, of the same name, in Foxe Basin that is very close to the Melville Peninsula ( and to a lesser degree, Baffin Island ), it is often thought to be on the peninsula.
Anthropologically, Iglulik Inuit are usually considered to be the Iglulingmiut, the Aivilingmiut, and the Tununirmiut, those Inuit Inupiaq-speakers on northern Baffin Island, on Southampton Island, and in the Melville Peninsula.
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