Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of eastern Nunavut, Canada, west of Greenland and south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is the fifth-largest island in the world.
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- proper noun An island in
Nunavut ,Canada , north of theCanadian mainland .
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- noun the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
Etymologies
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Examples
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I grew up on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, where we were one of the few non-Inuit families living in a small Inuit settlement.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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I grew up on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, where we were one of the few non-Inuit families living in a small Inuit settlement.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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I grew up on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, where we were one of the few non-Inuit families living in a small Inuit settlement.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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And my buddy was driving the airplane to Yellow Knife in the back of a U-haul trailer to get it , use a shoe-horn, shove it on to a DC-4 airplane and fly this ultra-light to Baffin Island where we were then going to fly to the sea ice.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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And my buddy was driving the airplane to Yellow Knife in the back of a U-haul trailer to get it , use a shoe-horn, shove it on to a DC-4 airplane and fly this ultra-light to Baffin Island where we were then going to fly to the sea ice.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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Mr. Nida journeyed to Baffin Island in Canada to recruit native speakers for a translation that was completed in 2002.
Spreading the Word in Hundreds of Tongues Stephen Miller 2011
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Changing planes in Pond Inlet, at the north end of Baffin Island, she dismisses the village as "bleak."
Two books on the Arctic Post 2011
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We arrived later at Pond Inlet, a settlement on Baffin Island with a view of the 6,000-feet-high mountains of Bylot Island and a seeming indifference to tourists—save for one local by the hotel entrance, selling bear claws for 20 Canadian dollars roughly US$20.
In the Arctic, Sleeping Soundly Sean Silcoff 2011
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Changing planes in Pond Inlet, at the north end of Baffin Island, she dismisses the village as "bleak."
Two books on the Arctic Post 2011
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And my buddy was driving the airplane to Yellow Knife in the back of a U-haul trailer to get it , use a shoe-horn, shove it on to a DC-4 airplane and fly this ultra-light to Baffin Island where we were then going to fly to the sea ice.
Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen Steven Crandell 2011
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