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Baffin Island

noun
1.
The 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay.





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... suppose that he was really going back to Nombre de Dios. It did not seem likely, though quite possible, that he was going in search of the Northwest Passage, for Martin Frobisher had gone out on that quest the year before and had returned with a lump of black stone from the arctic desolation of Baffin Island. No one seems to have divined the truth. Cape Horn was unknown. The Strait of Magellan was supposed to be the only opening between South America and a huge antarctic continent, and its reputation for disasters had grown so terrible, and rightly terrible, that ...
— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood


Words linked to "Baffin Island" :   island, Canada, Arctic Ocean


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