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Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga'',〔(Baffin Bay ). Wissenladen.de. Retrieved on 2013-03-22.〕 (フランス語:Baie de Baffin)), 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. A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay area was inhabited from around 500 BC by the Dorset and then Thule and Inuit people. It was reached by Europeans in 1585 and described in detail in 1616 by William Baffin, after whom the bay and the island are named. 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.〔(Circulation and generation of the North Water Polynya, Northern Baffin Bay ). (PDF) . Retrieved on 2013-03-22.〕 Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region. ==History== In 1585, British explorer John Davis was the first recorded European to enter the bay.〔(John Davis ), Encyclopædia Britannica on-line〕 Later, between 1612 and 1616, William Baffin made five expeditions to the Arctic; together with Robert Bylot, he reached and explored the Baffin Bay in 1616. He also proved that no Northwest Passage was in the Hudson Bay area.〔(William Baffin ), Encyclopædia Britannica on-line〕〔W. S. Wallace, "(Discovery and Exploration of Canada )", ''The Encyclopedia of Canada'', Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, pp. 307–310.〕 The reports by Baffin and Bylot were questioned in England and in 1818, the bay was "rediscovered" by John Ross.〔Farley Mowat (1967). The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, p. 43〕 More advanced scientific studies followed in 1928, in the 1930s and after World War II by Danish, American and Canadian expeditions.〔 The northern coast of area of the bay was occupied by the Dorset (500 BC – 1200 AD) and then Thule and Inuit people. Currently, there are a few Inuit settlements on the Canadian coast of the bay, including Arctic Bay (population 690), Pond Inlet (1,315) and Clyde River (820). Those settlements are accessed and supplied by air and annual sealifts. In 1975, a town was built at Nanisivik to support lead and zinc production at the Nanisivik Mine – the first Canadian mine in the Arctic. The mine was permanently closed in 2002 due to declining resources and metal prices. Whereas the town still has an operational seaport and an airport, as of the Canada 2006 Census, it has a population of zero.〔(Statistics Canada ). 2.statcan.ca (6 December 2010). Retrieved on 2013-03-22.〕 Baffin Bay was the epicenter of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in 1933. This is the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle. It caused no damage because of its offshore location and the small number of the nearby onshore communities. The northwestern part of the bay remains one of the most seismically active regions in eastern Canada. Five earthquakes of magnitude 6 have occurred here since 1933. The latest strong earthquake occurred on 15 April 2010 and had the magnitude of 5.1.〔(Natural Resources Canada: The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baffin Bay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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