baffin island

     

Baffin Islan (Inuktitut: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ, Qikiqtaaluk, French: Île de Baffin) in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world, with an area of 507,451 km² (195,928 sq mi). It has a population of 11,000 (2007). It is named after British explorer William Baffin. The island was known to the Norse as Helluland.

Trivia about baffin island

  • This Canadian island across from Greenland is the world's fifth-largest island
  • Martin Frobisher visited this huge island 40 years before the man for whom it was named
  • This Canadian island is the fifth largest in the world

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