Baffin Bay - Baffin Bay

Japanese: バフィン湾 - ばふぃんわん(英語表記)Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay - Baffin Bay

A bay in northeastern Canada, stretching between Ellesmere Island, Baffin Island, and Greenland. It is about 1,300 km long (north to south) and 450 km wide. The coast is mountainous and has many fjords, and glaciers flow directly into the bay, mainly on the northeastern coast. It connects to the Arctic Ocean to the north through Kennedy Strait and other channels, and to the Atlantic Ocean through Davis Strait. The bay is covered in pack ice (drift ice) for eight months of the year. It was explored by W. Baffin in 1616.

[Otake Kazuhiko]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

カナダ北東部、エルズミア島とバフィン島とグリーンランドとの間に広がる湾。長さ(南北)約1300キロメートル、幅約450キロメートル。沿岸は山がちでフィヨルドが多く、北東岸を中心に氷河が湾に直接入り込んでいる。北の北極海とはケネディ海峡など、大西洋とはデービス海峡を経て通ずる。湾内は1年のうち8か月はパックアイス(流氷)に覆われる。1616年にW・バフィンにより探検された。

[大竹一彦]

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