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Topic: Baffin Region


  
  Baffin Island Expedition to Clyde River
The Baffin Region, with a population 9,850 people, is made up of the largest single group of islands in the world.
Baffin Island is the 5th largest island in the world and is twice the size of the United Kingdom.
The region is considered "inhospitable" as depicted on the aeronautical charts and requires the aircraft to have provisions for survival in the unlikely event of a forced landing.
www.usac.com /reports/Arctic-96   (5077 words)

  
  Baffin Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baffin Island (Inuktitut: Qikiqtaaluk ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) is one of the Arctic Islands in the north of Canada in the territory of Nunavut.
On the West and North, Foxe Basin, the Gulf of Boothia and Lancaster Sound separate Baffin Island from the rest of the archipelago.
Baffin is part of the Region of Baffin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baffin_Island   (172 words)

  
 ITK: Our 5000 Year Heritage: The Inuit Regions
The regional administrative centres of Cambridge Bay in Kitikmeot, and Rankin Inlet in Kivalliq, have populations of 1,300 and 2,700 respectively.
Kuujjuaq is the regional administrative centre with a population of approximately 1,500 residents.
Nain, with a population of 1,200, is the administrative centre for the northern coastal region.
www.itk.ca /5000-year-heritage/regions.php   (861 words)

  
 Nunavut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east.
Most historians also identify the coast of Baffin Island with the Helluland described in Norse sagas, so it is possible that the inhabitants of the region had occasional contact with Norse sailors.
The aforementioned regional divisions are distinct from the district system of dividing the Northwest Territories that dated to 1876 and was abolished when Nunavut was created.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nunavut   (1206 words)

  
 Baffin Island - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Baffin Island, island of the Nunavut Territory, northeastern Canada.
Some regions of Ellesmere Island receive only about 2.5 cm (1 in) of precipitation each year.
Queen Elizabeth Islands, island group in the Baffin Region of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Territory, northern Canada, in the Arctic Ocean,...
encarta.msn.com /Baffin_Island.html   (152 words)

  
 Baffin Island - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Baffin Island 183,810 sq mi (476,068 sq km), c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long and from 130 to 450 mi (210-720 km) wide, in the Arctic Ocean, Nunavut Territory, Canada.
Baffin Island is geographically and geologically a continuation of Labrador, from which it is separated by Hudson Strait.
The island is named for William Baffin, the British explorer who explored the Arctic in 1616.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BaffinIsl.html   (465 words)

  
 Toonoonik Sahoonik Baffin Island
Baffin Island, a land of vast arctic wilderness and beauty is the fifth largest island in the world (after Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo and Madagascar).
Baffin is about 1,600 kilometres long (1,000 miles), its north shore boasting hundreds of bays, inlets and fjords that are bordered by rugged cliffs.
Baffin boasts a number of sanctuaries and parks including the 21,500 square kilometre Auyuittuq National Park accessed from Pangnirtung, on the Cumberland Peninsula, with some of the highest cliff faces in the world.
www.pondtours.ca /baffin.html   (384 words)

  
 Nunatsiaq News
The Baffin health board is trying to find out which mothers can safely deliver their babies at home, and which communities have the capacity to help them.
IQALUIT —; Pregnant women in the Baffin region may not have to leave home to have their babies, depending upon the results of a study.
Currently women from the Baffin region's 12 communities outside Iqaluit must be sent to the Baffin Regional Hospital to deliver their babies.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut990528/nvt90507_06.html   (621 words)

  
 Baffin Island --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Baffin Island is separated from Greenland on the north and east by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait and from the Labrador-Ungava mainland on the south by Hudson Strait.
It is administered as part of Baffin region, Nunavut territory, Canada.
The Baffin Island Current, flowing at a rate of about 11 miles (17 km) per day, is a combination of West Greenland Current inflow and the outflow of cold Arctic Ocean water from the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011731?tocId=9011731&query=baffin   (866 words)

  
 Gender Parity in Nunavut?
On the 26th of May 1997 inhabitants of the soon to be self-governing region of Nunavut voted on so-called electoral gender parity of men and women.
Judging from the results from the Baffin Island region, it quickly became clear that it would be difficult to obtain a majority for the proposal.
In the largest region, Baffin, there were three times as many votes as in Kitikmeot and double the number of votes in Kivalliq.
arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/Nunavut/gender.html   (3659 words)

  
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The pattern of the present glacierization on Baffin Island is influenced strongly by topography and climate.
Baffin Island can be represented simply in cross section (east to west) as a wedged-shaped prism that has the highest land lying within 10 to 100 km of the outer fault-bounded east coast (Ives and Andrews, 1963; Kerr, 1970).
The glaciation level for the region of Baffin Bay is drawn from maps in Andrews and Miller (1972) and Weidick (1975) and is shown in figure 2.
pubs.usgs.gov /pp/p1386j/baffinisland/baffinisland.txt   (12686 words)

  
 Baffin Region, Nunavut - Northern Food Basket - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For all communities in the Baffin Region, the cost of the basket is based on the lowest price available in the community for each item in the basket, using a specific purchase size and, for most products, a specific brand.
In 1991, surveys were conducted in September, shortly before the postage rate reduction from $2.10 per kilogram to $1.50 per kilogram that occurred on October 1, 1991 in the Baffin Region, for perishable food only.
The postage rate for perishable food shipped to the Baffin Region was reduced from $1.50 per kilogram to $1.20 per kilogram on October 1, 1992 and to $0.80 per kilogram on July 1, 1993.
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ps/nap/air/fruijui/nfb/nfbbafnuna_e.html   (499 words)

  
 Health and Social Services
Baffin Regional Hospital (BRH) is a 26 bed general hospital staffed by family physicians, family practice anesthetists, and a general surgeon.
Baffin Regional Hospital is a teaching practice affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine of University of Ottawa.
The practice in Baffin Regional Hospital is very collegial, and in Kivalliq there is good support for the family physicians from the Northern Medical Unit at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
www.gov.nu.ca /hsssite/physicianrecruit.shtml   (577 words)

  
 Baffin. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
Baffin, region (392,905 sq mi/1,017,889 sq km; 1991 pop.
It extends N from the southernmost portion of the Hudson Bay to the N tip of Ellesmere Isl.
The region was created in the early 1970s by the territorial govt.
www.bartleby.com /69/58/B00458.html   (105 words)

  
 Nunatsiaq News
Baffin residents who want to upgrade their driving licences will have to wait until the GNWT finds a new driver-examiner.
IQALUIT - As of the end of this week, the Baffin regional office of the NWT's transportation department will be without a motor vehicle driver-examiner.
Gary Walsh, assistant director of safety and regulations, confirmed that the sole qualified examiner in the Baffin region was expected to quit her post on May 22.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut980531/nvt80522_15.html   (385 words)

  
 Nunavut Planning Commission - South Baffin Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The NPC's aim in the South Baffin is to ensure that lands, waters and wildlife are used responsibly so that traditional activities can be maintained in an atmosphere of sustainable development.
Landforms in the South Baffin region include not only the tundra that comprises the majority of Nunavut's landmass, but also mountains, highlands and fjords.
The traditional diet of Inuit in this region includes staples common to much of Nunavut ­ arctic char, ptarmigan and geese, and caribou ­ as well as walruses, and especially harp and ringed seals, which are hunted throughout the year.
www.npc.nunavut.ca /eng/regions/southbaf   (370 words)

  
 Ecology: Influence Of Sea Ice Dynamics On Habitat Selection By Polar Bears
To evaluate polar bear habitat selection, we tested for differences between the two regions over four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter) as represented by sine wave functions from each bear X year (i.e., the sample unit is an individual bear over one annual period).
From November to May, the Baffin Bay region was dominated by 95% ice coverage, whereas bergy ice dominated from July to October during the melting season (Fig.
Baffin Bay ice was less fractured, in contrast with Archipelago ice, as indicated by greater distances to ice edges (49.6 [plus or minus] 0.1 km vs. 15.4 [plus or minus] 0.3 km, t = 16.2, P [less than] 0.001).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_3_81/ai_61242204/pg_3   (1444 words)

  
 Welcome to Nunavut, Canada
The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east.
Fort Smith region and Inuvik region remain census divisions of the Northwest Territories.
The aforementioned regional divisions are distinct from the district system of dividing the Northwest Territories that dated to 1876 and was abolished when Nunavut was created.
www.hometowncanada.com /nu   (1289 words)

  
 AW2004 Abstract: Briner
The Holocene LOI pattern is repeated in several cores from the Clyde Region, and the surface core pattern is virtually identical to a 210Pb-dated surface core from a neighboring lake.
The LOI-defined HTM at Clyde is earlier than in adjacent Baffin Bay (Dyke et al., 1996), but is later than lake core estimates for the HTM from southern Baffin Island (e.g., Miller et al., 1999).
These comparisons suggest that southern Baffin Island warmed before northern Baffin Island, even though both locations were deglaciated at roughly the same time.
www.colorado.edu /INSTAAR/AW2004/get_abstr.html?id=41   (592 words)

  
 Baffin Island Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The rocks that dominate the landscape, such as granite, are in the senior citizen category, even in geological terms, at two and a half billion years old.
It is important to remember that Baffin Island is in the Arctic and winter comes early and when it does arrive it is not a place for anyone without the experience to deal with the harsh climate.
Regardless of the time of year that you visit Baffin Island you should be prepared for cold and wet weather.
www.icecap.ca /baffin/baf_trek.htm   (1829 words)

  
 RDEE : www.rdee.ca
There are approximately 375 Francophones in the Baffin region of Nunavut.
Baffin would benefit from some economic diversification, particularly in tourism and development of natural resources.
Regional stakeholders identified workforce training and human resource development as priorities that need to be addressed in order to meet the many economic challenges facing Baffin.
www.rdee.ca /applications/rdeeen/index.cfm?province=NU&name=Baffin&mode=intro   (137 words)

  
 GulfBase - Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay is located in Texas and projects inland from Laguna Madre forming part of the eastern boundary between Kenedy and Kleberg counties.
Baffin Bay is a small embayment located on the western edge of the Upper Laguna Madre and it is often considered a part of this larger system.
A distinctive feature of both Baffin and Alazan Bays is the presence of ancient serpulid worm reefs.
www.gulfbase.org /bay/view.php?bid=baffin   (316 words)

  
 Central Baffin Island 4-D Project - Projects - The stratigraphy and petrology of the Bravo Lake Formation
The bedrock geology of central Baffin Island is composed mostly of sedimentary rocks (sandy rocks formed in a beach-type environment and mudstones formed in deep ocean basins) and plutonic igneous rocks (crystalline rocks formed from molten magma beneath the surface of the Earth).
If we can decipher the tectonic processes which operated in the central Baffin region nearly two billion years ago, we may be able to apply it to the modern Earth in order to gain a greater understanding of those forces shaping our world today.
The Bravo Lake Formation comprises the upper sequence of the Paleoproterozoic Piling Group, and is characterized by a thick package of metamorphosed mafic volcanic, ultramafic, mafic metasedimentary, and rusty psammitic rocks, with lesser amounts of pelitic rocks, iron-formation, and pyrite-rich massive sulphides.
gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /baffin4d/proj/p23_e.php   (1150 words)

  
 CBC North - Baffin Inuit president to focus on cost of living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Inuit living in the Baffin region want to see changes to the federal food mail program and better food subsidies offered to people living in the area.
Aliqaturtuq says right now, Inuit living on social assistance in the Baffin region miss out on the subsidy due to their income levels or because they don't have credit cards needed to place an order.
Aliqaturtuq says the average food costs in 2002 for a family of four in the Baffin region were just over $13,000, compared to about $7,000 for a family of four living in Ottawa.
north.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=nun-baffincost13052004   (356 words)

  
 Nunavut Region Map: Baffin Region — Kitikmeot Region | Canada Google Satellite Maps
Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
You are in Nunavut (Canada), administrative region of level 1.
www.maplandia.com /canada/nunavut   (700 words)

  
 LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS IN THE ARTIC OCEAN?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The ATLANTIS: BENEATH BAFFIN BAY uses this map of Atlantis published by Athanasius Kircher in 1665 and compares it with the arctic region surrounding Greenland with the Canada's Hudson Bay on the left and the United Kingdom, North Sea and Scandinavia opposite.
The location here, is Baffin Bay and the volume/mass of dirt expelled is that of the land & strata that A:BBB Theory says may have once lay stretched between Baffin Island to the west and the mountainous coast of west Greenland.
It slams into the Baffin region causing the collapse of the microplate and flooding of all that remains by the Atlantic Ocean and the raising of huge amounts of sediment in the backwash.
www.angelfire.com /film/atlantis_1/Page004.html   (8443 words)

  
 Cruise North Expeditions, Arctic Cruises, Authentic
The people native to the coastal regions of Labrador, Greenland, Nunavit, the Northwest Territories (including the Arctic archipelago), Alaska and northeastern Siberia share ancestors as well as many cultural traits, and form an entirely separate group from the adjacent Indian tribes.
The Baffin Region, like the rest of the Canadian Arctic, is now utterly dependent on transfer payments from the federal government: Ottawa spends more than $15,000 for every man, woman and child Nunavut and in the NWT, compared to $3,000 per capita in Newfoundland, Canada's poorest province.
Current and recent projects in the Baffin Region aimed at improving the lot of the Inuit include educational reforms and the creation of Arctic College; the promotion of the region as a tourist destination, with local people becoming involved as guides and outfitters; a shrimp fishery; and so on.
www.cruisenorthexpeditions.com /print/textpage_people.htm   (672 words)

  
 Inuit Art - Eskimo Art from Canada's Central Arctic
The Arctic is mostly a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, including organisms living in the ice, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals and human societies.
From the perspective of the physical, chemical and biological balance in the world, the Arctic region is in a key position.
The Kitikmeot Region (Central Arctic) is 457,209 sq.km and includes the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island.
www.gallerycanada.com /central_arctic.asp   (378 words)

  
 The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake
This earthquake is the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake to have occurred along the passive margin of North America and coincidentally is also the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle.
The only known location that felt the earthquake was in the Upernavik, Greenland region (see map below) while it was definitely not felt in Thule to the north or in Diskofjord to the south.
The northwestern Baffin Bay -northeastern Baffin Island region continues to be active, one of the most active regions in eastern Canada.
earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca /historic_eq/20th/1933baffin_e.php   (209 words)

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