Baffin Island

E50997
island landform

Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world, located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut and known for its rugged, glaciated landscape and Inuit communities.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Baffin Island canonical 26
Qikiqtaaluk (Inuktitut name for Baffin Island) 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island ⓘ
landform ⓘ
administrativeTerritory Nunavut ⓘ
area 195928 square miles ⓘ
507451 square kilometres ⓘ
capitalOfTerritoryLocatedOn Iqaluit ⓘ
climate polar climate ⓘ
coastlineOn Baffin Bay ⓘ
Davis Strait ⓘ
Foxe Basin ⓘ
Hudson Strait ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country Canada ⓘ
countrySubdivisionType territory ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity fishing ⓘ
mineral exploration ⓘ
subsistence hunting ⓘ
tourism ⓘ
highestElevation 2147 metres ⓘ
7044 feet ⓘ
highestPoint Mount Odin ⓘ
indigenousPeople Inuit ⓘ
knownFor Arctic wildlife ⓘ
Inuit communities ⓘ
fjords ⓘ
glaciated terrain ⓘ
rugged landscape ⓘ
largestSettlement Iqaluit ⓘ
locatedIn Arctic Archipelago ⓘ
Arctic region ⓘ
surface form: Canadian Arctic

Nunavut ⓘ
namedAfter William Baffin ⓘ
notableWildlife Arctic fox ⓘ
caribou ⓘ
polar bear ⓘ
ringed seal ⓘ
ocean Arctic Ocean ⓘ
partOf Qikiqtaaluk Region ⓘ
population approximately 13000 ⓘ
populationAsOf 2021 ⓘ
primaryIndigenousLanguage Inuktitut ⓘ
protectedAreaOnIsland Auyuittuq National Park ⓘ
Sirmilik National Park ⓘ
rankByAreaInCanadaIslands 1 ⓘ
rankByAreaInWorldIslands 5 ⓘ
separatedFromGreenlandBy Baffin Bay ⓘ
Davis Strait ⓘ
separatedFromLabradorBy Hudson Strait ⓘ
timeZone Atlantic Time Zone ⓘ
Eastern Time Zone ⓘ

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hudson Strait → borders → Baffin Island ⓘ
Greenlandic Norse → explored → Baffin Island ⓘ
Baffin Bay → borders → Baffin Island ⓘ
Nunavut → hasIsland → Baffin Island ⓘ
Davis Strait → separates → Baffin Island ⓘ
Davis Strait → borderedBy → Baffin Island ⓘ
Iqaluit → locatedOn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Arctic Archipelago → hasLargestIsland → Baffin Island ⓘ
Martin Frobisher → explored → Baffin Island ⓘ
William Baffin → nameGivenTo → Baffin Island ⓘ
Lancaster Sound → northOf → Baffin Island ⓘ
Devon Island → locatedNorthOf → Baffin Island ⓘ
Qikiqtaaluk Region → contains → Baffin Island ⓘ
Qikiqtaaluk Region → namedAfter → Baffin Island ⓘ
this entity surface form: Qikiqtaaluk (Inuktitut name for Baffin Island)
Foxe Basin → locatedBetween → Baffin Island ⓘ
Foxe Basin → borderedBy → Baffin Island ⓘ
Arctic Cordillera → contains → Baffin Island ⓘ
West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative → locatedIn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Kinngait Studios → locatedOn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Mount Odin → locatedIn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Auyuittuq National Park → locatedIn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Frobisher Bay → locatedIn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Frobisher Bay → locatedOnCoastOf → Baffin Island ⓘ
Sirmilik National Park → locatedOn → Baffin Island ⓘ
Bjarni Herjólfsson → possibleSightings → Baffin Island ⓘ
Helluland → possibleModernEquivalent → Baffin Island ⓘ
Dorset culture → mainAreaOfActivity → Baffin Island ⓘ