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Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut nam ...

, formerly called the Baffin Region, an administrative and census region of Nunavut, Canada *

Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized in Nunavut, Canada, is part of a larger census division known as the Qikiqtaaluk Region. This area covers the whole Qikiqtaaluk Region outside the 13 communities such as Iqaluit, Resolute or Grise Fiord. Qikiqtaaluk has ...

, formerly called Baffin, Unorganized, part of the Baffin Region census division *

South Baffin South Baffin (, , Inuinnaqtun: Hivuraa Qikiqtaaluk) is a territorial electoral district ( riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada. The riding consists of the communities of Kinngait and Kimmirut. Election results 1999 electio ...

, a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut *

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second-largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is (slightly smal ...

, an Arctic island of Nunavut *

Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a s ...

, a sea between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans *

Baffin Mountains The Baffin Mountains are a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island and Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. The ice-capped mountains are part of the Arctic Cordillera and have some of the highest peaks of eastern North Amer ...

, a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island *

Baffin Region The Baffin Region was a region of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut in 1999. In 1967, it was created as the Baffin Region, Northwest Territories. The large majority of th ...

, a region of the Northwest Territories prior to division *

Baffin Bay (Texas) Baffin Bay is a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre. Located near the Gulf of Mexico, Baffin Bay forms part of the boundary between Kenedy County and Kleberg County. Etymology The history of the bay name is unclear. The mos ...

, a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre

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Baffin Island Current Baffin Island Current (or Baffin Current) is an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean, along Baffin Island. Its sources are the West Greenland Current and outflow from the Arctic Ocean The Arc ...

, an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay *

William Baffin William Baffin ( – 23 January 1622) was an English navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is best known for his attempt to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans, during which Baffin became the first European to disc ...

, a 17th-century English navigator and discoverer * , a World War II Isles class trawler of the Royal Canadian Navy *

Blackburn Baffin The Blackburn B-5 Baffin biplane torpedo bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Blackburn Aircraft. It was a development of the Ripon, the chief change being that a 545 hp (406 kW) Bristol Pegasus I.MS radial ...

, a torpedo bomber of the Fleet Air Arm

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