26-698: Baffin may refer to: Places [ edit ] Qikiqtaaluk Region , formerly called the Baffin Region, an administrative and census region of Nunavut, Canada Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized , formerly called Baffin, Unorganized, part of the Baffin Region census division South Baffin , a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Baffin Island , an Arctic island of Nunavut Baffin Bay ,
52-632: A 17th-century English navigator and discoverer HMS Baffin , a World War II Isles class trawler of the Royal Canadian Navy Blackburn Baffin , a torpedo bomber of the Fleet Air Arm See also [ edit ] Baffins , an administrative district of Portsmouth, UK HMS Ameer (D01) , a World War II escort carrier of the Royal Navy, formerly known as USS Baffins MV TransAtlantic , formerly
78-422: A land area of 970,554.61 km (374,733.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.0/km (0.1/sq mi) in 2021. 70°N 080°W / 70°N 80°W / 70; -80 ( Qikiqtaaluk Region ) Belcher Islands The Belcher Islands ( Inuktitut : ᓴᓪᓚᔪᒐᐃᑦ , romanized : Sanikiluaq ) are an archipelago in the southeast part of Hudson Bay near
104-850: A sea between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans Baffin Mountains , a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island Baffin Region , a region of the Northwest Territories prior to division Baffin Bay (Texas) , a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre Other uses [ edit ] Baffin Island Current , an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay William Baffin ,
130-683: Is Iqaluit (population 7,740). The Qikiqtaaluk Region spans the northernmost, easternmost, and southernmost areas of Nunavut . Before 1999, the Qikiqtaaluk Region existed under slightly different boundaries in the Northwest Territories as the Baffin Region , in the northern part of the District of Keewatin . The western half of the nearby Hans Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk, while
156-445: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region , Qikiqtani Region ( Inuktitut syllabics : ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ pronounced [qikiqtaːˈluk] ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut , Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island . Although
182-614: Is quarried from a site on western Tukarak Island where dolomite of the Costello Formation was intruded by hot magma , with dolomite reacting with quartz and water under intense heat to form talc , calcite , and carbon dioxide : 3CaMg(CO 3 ) 2 + 4SiO 2 + H 2 O → [Heat] Mg 3 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2 + 3CaCO 3 + 3CO 2 Other minerals within the soapstone are largely calcite , dolomite , talc , and clinochlore , with minor amounts of ilmenite . Although most soapstone has been sourced from two quarries,
208-1080: The Astro Hill Complex , the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum and the Legislative Building of Nunavut and the Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre. According to anthropologists and historians, the Inuit are the descendants of the Thule people who displaced the Dorset culture (in Inuktitut , the Tuniit). By 1300 the Inuit had trade routes with more southern cultures. About 1910, Europeans markets increased their interest in white fox pelts. The distribution and mobility of Inuit changed as they expanded their traditional hunting and fishing routes to participate in
234-493: The Dorset culture between 500 BCE and 1000 CE. Centuries later, from 1200 to 1500, the Thule people made their presence on the islands. The first European to encounter the islands was English sea explorer Henry Hudson , the namesake of Hudson Bay , who sighted the islands in 1610. In 1670, the islands and the entirety of Hudson Bay drainage basin were designated by the English king, Charles II , as Rupert's Land , managed by
260-526: The Hudson's Bay Company . The islands are named after Royal Navy Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (1799–1877). In the early 19th century, caribou herds which lived on the islands disappeared. In an alternative effort to find warm clothing, the inhabitants of the islands sought the down of eider ducks , seaducks who nest on the island. In 1870, Rupert's Land was ceded to the Northwest Territories . Before 1914, English-speaking cartographers knew very little about
286-679: The Belcher Group forms part of the Circum-Superior Belt . From youngest to oldest, the Belcher Group is composed of: The oldest part of the Belcher Group, the Kasegalik Formation, was deposited between 2.0185 and 2.0154 billion years ago. The Kasegalik Formation also contains the oldest unambiguous Cyanobacteria microfossils. Much of the Belcher Group strata were deposited under intertidal to shallow-water conditions, although
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#1732845507192312-742: The Belcher Island Murders. In 1999, when Nunavut was separated from Northwest Territories, the Belcher Islands were included within Nunavut, along with most islands in Hudson Bay. The geologic units of the Belcher Group, which forms the Belcher Islands, were deposited during the Paleoproterozoic . Combined with other Paleoproterozoic units that occur along the edge of the Superior Craton ,
338-442: The Belcher Islands, which they showed on maps as specks, much smaller than their true extent. In that year a map showing them, drawn by George Weetaltuk, came into the hands of Robert Flaherty , and cartographers began to represent them more accurately. In 1941, a religious movement led by Charley Ouyerack, Peter Sala, and his sister Mina caused the death by blows or exposure of nine persons, an occurrence that came to be known as
364-517: The Canadian government, and some Anglican and Catholic missionaries who lived near remote northern hamlets. By 1922, most of imported goods acquired by Inuit were from the HBC. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Qikiqtaaluk Region had a population of 19,355 living in 5,530 of its 6,573 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 18,988 . With
390-546: The MV Baffin Strait (T-AK-W9519), a container ship Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Baffin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baffin&oldid=1149692287 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
416-492: The Mavor Formation formed a platform margin stromatolite reef complex, and the overlying Costello and Laddie formations represent slope and deep basin deposits, respectively. The Kipalu Formation, deposited approximately 1.88 billion years ago, is notable for being a granular iron formation . The Flaherty Formation basalt that composes much of the Belcher Islands was deposited between 1.87 and 1.854 billion years ago, with
442-482: The Qikiqtaaluk Region is the most commonly used name in official contexts, several notable public organizations, including Statistics Canada prior to the 2021 Canadian census , use the older term Baffin Region. With a population of 18,988 and an area of 989,879.35 km (382,194.55 sq mi), it is the largest and most populated of the three regions. It is also the largest second-level administrative division in
468-515: The Qikiqtaaluk. Formerly, there was a mining town at Nanisivik . However, it and the Nanisivik Mine closed in 2002, with Nanisivik Airport closing in 2010 and all flights transferred to Arctic Bay Airport . Like the majority of Canada's Inuit communities, the region's traditional foods include seal , Arctic char , walrus , polar bear , and caribou . Inhabitants of the Qikiqtaaluk Region are called Qikiqtaalungmiut . Iqaluit has
494-514: The centre of the Nastapoka arc . The Belcher Islands are spread out over almost 3,000 km (1,200 sq mi). Administratively, they belong to the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut , Canada. The hamlet of Sanikiluaq (where the majority of the inhabitants of the Belcher Islands live) is on the north coast of Flaherty Island and is the southernmost in Nunavut. Along with Flaherty Island,
520-672: The eastern half is part of Greenland and is in the municipality of Avannaata . All of Qikiqtaaluk's thirteen communities are located on tidal water and just under half of its residents live in Nunavut's capital and only city, Iqaluit (7,740. ). The majority of the rest live in twelve hamlets— Arctic Bay (868 ), Kinngait (1,441 ), Clyde River (1,053 ), Grise Fiord (129 ), Sanirajak (848 ), Igloolik (1,682 ), Kimmirut (389 ), Pangnirtung (1,481 ), Pond Inlet (1,617 ), Qikiqtarjuaq (598 ), Resolute (198 ) and Sanikiluaq (882 ). Alert ( CFS Alert ) and Eureka are part of Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized (permanent population 0 ) areas in
546-453: The islands because of a lack of adequate soil. The main wildlife consists of belugas , walrus , caribou , common eiders and snowy owls all of which can be seen on the island year round. There is also a wide variety of fish that can be caught such as Arctic char , cod , capelin , lump fish , and sculpin . The historical relationship between the Sanikiluaq community and the eider
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#1732845507192572-467: The other large islands are Kugong Island , Tukarak Island , and Innetalling Island . Other main islands in the 1,500–island archipelago are Moore Island , Wiegand Island, Split Island, Snape Island and Mavor Island, while island groups include the Sleeper Islands, King George Islands, and Bakers Dozen Islands. The archaeological evidence present on the islands indicates that they were inhabited by
598-431: The overlying Omarolluk and Loaf formations being deposited from 1.854 billion years ago until sometime after 1.83 billion years ago. The occurrence of very high-quality soapstone in the Belcher Islands supports a locally significant carving industry. These soapstone occurrences formed when sedimentary rocks of the Belcher Group were intruded by Haig sills and dykes approximately 1.87 billion years ago. Most soapstone
624-544: The relatively widespread occurrence of Haig intrusions within the Belcher Islands suggests that there may be many more possible sources of high-quality soapstone not yet discovered. Several species of willow ( Salix ) form a large component of the native small shrubbery on the archipelago. These include rock willow ( Salix vestita ), bog willow ( S. pedicellaris ), and Labrador willow ( S. argyrocarpa ), as well as naturally occurring hybrids between S. arctica and S. glauca . Trees cannot grow on
650-419: The white fox fur trade. Traditional food staples—such as seal and caribou—were not always found in the same regions as white fox. The Hudson's Bay Company —which was chartered in 1670—had been opening fur trading posts throughout Inuit and First Nations territory. By 1910, the HBC was restructured into a lands sales department, retail and fur trade. The HBC dominated the fur trade under minimal supervision from
676-664: The world. The region consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands , Akimiski Island , Mansel Island , Prince Charles Island , Bylot Island , Devon Island , Baillie-Hamilton Island , Cornwallis Island , Bathurst Island , Amund Ringnes Island , Ellef Ringnes Island , Axel Heiberg Island , Ellesmere Island , the Melville Peninsula , the eastern part of Melville Island , and the northern parts of both Prince of Wales Island and Somerset Island , plus smaller islands in between. The regional centre, and territorial capital,
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