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Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay
(
Inuktitut
:
Saknirutiak Imanga
; ), located between
Baffin Island
and the southwest coast of
Greenland
, is a
marginal sea
of the
North Atlantic Ocean
. It is connected to the Atlantic via
Davis Strait
and the
Labrador Sea
. The narrower
Nares Strait
connects Baffin Bay with the
Arctic Ocean
. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the
ice cover
and high density of
floating ice
and
icebergs
in the open areas. However, a
polynya
of about , known as the
North Water
, opens in summer on the north near
Smith Sound
. Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region.
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