Baffin Bay Agrees as Wild March With Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024

Summary: Baffin Bay agrees as Wild March with Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, whereby the National Audubon Society applauds Arctic and near-Arctic American wildlife.

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Air and water currents, air and water temperatures, fast and pack ice account for summer-cool, winter-cold Baffin Bay. The arm to the Arctic and to the Atlantic Oceans accumulates waters and winds from the Baffin Island, the East Greenland, the Labrador, the North Atlantic and the West Greenland Currents; U.S. Coast Guard graphic shows Labrador Current as one of the North Atlantic Ocean's major currents: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Baffin Bay agrees as Wild March with Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, whereby the National Audubon Society applauds Arctic and near-Arctic American wildlife.

Baffin Bay, for Northwest Passage cartographer, explorer and navigator William Baffin (1584?-Jan. 23, 1622), bears such wildlife as algae, aquatic mammals, birds, fishes, plants and zooplankton. The 900-mile- (1,450-kilometer-) long, 68- to 404-mile- (110- to 650-kilometer-) wide marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean contains such sea-ice algae as pennate diatoms (Nitschia frigida). It zooplanktonically (from Greek ζῷον πλαγκτός, “animal drifter”) domiciles arrow-worms (Chaetognatha, from Greek χαίτη γνάθος, “flowing-hair jaw”) and copepods (Calanus, from Greek κώπη πούς, “handle foot”).

The Atlantic Ocean arm through Davis Strait, for Northwest Passage explorer John Davis (October 1550-Dec. 29, 1605) entertains such aquatic mammals as bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus).

Baffin Bay amasses a 266,000-square-mile (689,000-square-kilometer) surface area. It amounts to a 142,000-cubic-mile (593,000-cubic-kilometer) water volume anchored between coastal eastern Baffin Island and coastal western Greenland. It announces average 2,825-foot (861-meter) and maximum 7,008-foot (2,1360-mile) maximum depths. It appends crushed-stone, grave and sand sea bottoms coastally and, in the 7,008-foot- (2,136-meter-) deep Baffin Basin pit, silt sea bottoms centrally; graphic of location of Baffin Bay between Greenland, to the east, and Baffin Island, to the west: Connormah, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The Arctic Ocean marginal sea through Nares Strait, for Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (April 24, 1831-Jan. 15, 1915), features bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus).

The North Atlantic Ocean arm through the marginal Labrador Sea, for João Fernandes Lavrador (1453-September 1501), guards additionally such aquatic mammals as harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus). The mostly year-round non-navigable bay likewise hosts, with most aquatic life forms, predominantly in its summer-opened North Water narwhals (Monodon monoceros) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Ringed seals (Pusa hispida) inhabit the approximately 31,000-square-mile (80,000-square-kilometer) North Water polynya (open, unfrozen sea water within sea ice, from Russian по́лый via Latin полынья́, “hollow”).

Baffin Bay rorquals journey through the North Water during the Arctic summer months of June through August, after Wild March on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024.

Sea life forms in Baffin Bay arise from the 31,000-square-mile (80,000-square-kilometer) North Water Polynya of open, unfrozen sea water within fast and pack ice. Animal and plant species assemble along and in Baffin Bay, from which breathing holes and shore-to-shore surface ice absent themselves; May 2015 satellite image of North Water Polynya, sea ice-surrounded year-round open water lying between Canada and Greenland: David Fuglestad, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The North Water polynya keeps among life forms rorqual (from Old Norse reyðar hvalr, “red whale” via Norwegian Norse røyr kval) whales and walruses (Odobenus rosmarus).

Blue (Balaenoptera musculus), common minke (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) Balaenopteridae (from Latin bālaena, “whale”; Greek πτερόν, “wing”; Latin -idæ, “-like”) family rorquals live there. Birds such as Arctic redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni), guillemots (Cepphus spp), gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) and little auks (Alle alle) may migrate south from Baffin Bay winter-month shorelines. Cold, stormy winters necessitate such other avian wildlife as rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta), snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) and willow ptarmigans (Lagopus lagopus) navigating avian southbound flyways.

Baffin Bay offers Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 water temperatures below 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1 degree Celsius), and even colder air temperatures, during Wild March.

The rugged geography of Baffin Bay asserts itself in its northwestern part. Earthquake scientists assess it as a highly seismically active region in eastern Canada. They assigned a 7.3 magnitude to an earthquake epicentered in Baffin Bay in 1933. The latter attains the reputation as the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle; Figure 4A, "Baffin Bay structure cross section," page 5, in "Geology and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the West Greenland-East Canada Province, 2008," by Christopher J. Schenk (pages 1-31), Chapter J of Thomas E. Moore and Donald L. Gautier, eds., The 2008 Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (Professional Paper 1824; U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2017): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Winter air temperatures over north and south Baffin Bay present respective averages of minus 18 and minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 28 and minus 280degrees Celsius).

Baffin Bay quarters cod, haddock, halibut, herring and rattail fishes as Atlantic migrants and Arctic flounder, capelin, four-horned sculpin and polar cod as year-in, year-out residents. Baffin Bay quarters cod (Gadus), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), herring (Clupea harengus) and rattail (Macrouridae family's Macrourinae subfamily) fishes as Atlantic migrants. Arctic flounder (Liopsetta glacialis), capelin (Mallotus villosus), fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis) and polar cod (Boreogadus saida) remain in Baffin Bay waters as summer, winter, year-round residents.

Alder (Alnus alnobetula), birch (Betula) and willow (Salix arctica) and lichens, lyme grass (Leymus arenarius) and mosses temper Wild March on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024.

Baffin Bay and the area along its Baffin Island and Greenland shores attest to human settlement since about 500 BCE. Anthropological and archaeological social sciences attribute as first settlers, until 1000 to 1500 CE, the Dorset culture of Cape Dorset, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada ; Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, 20:49, image of Dorset Culture ivory sculpture of "ours nageant" (swimming bear), held in Musée du Quai Branly -- Jacques Chirac, Paris, and found on Iglulik Island, Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Northern Canada: dalbera from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Dedication

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Air and water currents, air and water temperatures, fast and pack ice account for summer-cool, winter-cold Baffin Bay. The arm to the Arctic and to the Atlantic Oceans accumulates waters and winds from the Baffin Island, the East Greenland, the Labrador, the North Atlantic and the West Greenland Currents; U.S. Coast Guard graphic shows Labrador Current as one of the North Atlantic Ocean's major currents: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LabradorCurrentus-coastguard.jpg

Baffin Bay amasses a 266,000-square-mile (689,000-square-kilometer) surface area. It amounts to a 142,000-cubic-mile (593,000-cubic-kilometer) water volume anchored between coastal eastern Baffin Island and coastal western Greenland. It announces average 2,825-foot (861-meter) and maximum 7,008-foot (2,1360-mile) maximum depths. It appends crushed-stone, grave and sand sea bottoms coastally and, in the 7,008-foot- (2,136-meter-) deep Baffin Basin pit, silt sea bottoms centrally; graphic of location of Baffin Bay between Greenland, to the east, and Baffin Island, to the west: Connormah, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baffin_Bay,_Canada.svg

Sea life forms in Baffin Bay arise from the 31,000-square-mile (80,000-square-kilometer) North Water Polynya of open, unfrozen sea water within fast and pack ice. Animal and plant species assemble along and in Baffin Bay, from which breathing holes and shore-to-shore surface ice absent themselves; May 2015 satellite image of North Water Polynya, sea ice-surrounded year-round open water lying between Canada and Greenland: David Fuglestad, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Water_MODIS_2015-05-27.jpg; via NASA Sciences Goddard Earth Sciences Division Projects @ https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/airs-derived-turbulent-fluxes-north-water-polynya

The rugged geography of Baffin Bay asserts itself in its northwestern part. Earthquake scientists assess it as a highly seismically active region in eastern Canada. They assigned a 7.3 magnitude to an earthquake epicentered in Baffin Bay in 1933. The latter attains the reputation as the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle; Figure 4A, "Baffin Bay structure cross section," page 5, in "Geology and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the West Greenland-East Canada Province, 2008," by Christopher J. Schenk (pages 1-31), Chapter J of Thomas E. Moore and Donald L. Gautier, eds., The 2008 Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (Professional Paper 1824; U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2017): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baffin_Basin_cross_section.jpg; via USGS Publications Warehouse @ https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1824/j/pp1824j.pdf

Baffin Bay and the area along its Baffin Island and Greenland shores attest to human settlement since about 500 BCE. Anthropological and archaeological social sciences attribute as first settlers, until 1000 to 1500 CE, the Dorset culture of Cape Dorset, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada ; Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, 20:49, image of Dorset Culture ivory sculpture of "ours nageant" (swimming bear), held in Musée du Quai Branly -- Jacques Chirac, Paris, and found on Iglulik Island, Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Northern Canada: dalbera from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ours_nageant_(Musée_du_quai_Branly)_(3034045389).jpg; Jean-Pierre Dalbéra (dalbera), CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/3034045389/

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