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- As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population was 7,429 (population centre: 6,991 an inlet of Frobisher Bay, on the southeast part of Baffin Island. ...
- Later, the 17th-century Icelandic bishop Guðbrandur Thorlaksson also used the name "Ginnungegap" to refer to a narrow body of water, possibly the Davis Strait, separating the southern tip of Greenland from "Estotelandia, pars America extrema", probably Baffin Island.
- Baffin Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region.
- This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Newfoundland and Labrador and Resolution Island off Baffin Island.
- Bylot Island, off the northern end of Baffin Island and one of the more dramatic of the Canadian Arctic islands, was named after him.
- Numerous artifacts attributed to the Norse have been found in Canada, particularly on Baffin Island and in northern Labrador.
- One of the Inuit was a tattooed woman from Baffin Island, who was illustrated by the English cartographer John White.
- In 2018 bright blue spinels have been reported also in the southern part of Baffin Island (Canada).
- Martin Frobisher landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in August 1576; He returned in 1577, claiming it in Queen Elizabeth's name, and in a third voyage tried but failed to found a settlement in Frobisher Bay.
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