Talk:Baffin Island

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this is the WORST landmass in the world. why don't the canadians kick it out of the country? --B. Phillips 09:19, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

• I don't understand your question. What purpose would it serve to remove Baffin Island from Canada? Em3rald 01:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Whoa, I'd never even heard of the Baffin Islands until I was looking at pictures of Alex Lowe climbing Sail Peak in the "Baffin Islands." Checked it out. The land/ice mass is stunning. Go to (cut and paste) http://www.npr.org/programs/day/features/2006/oct/wiltsie/gallery.html to see this amazing climb/climber/photographer. N.Heward 3 0ctober 2006

It's said to make magnificent hunting ground, and no doubt very scenic.

I heard there were nordic stone carvings on the island, from around 1000 a.d. ... is this true?

Following looks erroneous: "Japanese settlement of Baffin 10,000,000 people"

Scientists have found what they call hints of the earth's original recipe in an outcrop of rocks along a remote coast of Baffin Island. The chemical composition of the Arctic rocks hasn't changed in 4.5 billion years, which makes it about the same age as the earth itself. from www.theglobeandmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.121.163.199 (talk) 19:06, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

fauna

it seems that many animals on mainland nunavut don't exist on baffin island. is there a reason for this? can we add an explanation in the article? also where does the inuit name for the island derive from or what does it mean?--Sonjaaa (talk) 15:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The name according to the Inuktitut Living Dictionary it translates to "Baffin Island" which would mean that the Qikiqtaaluk Region is the Baffin Island Region but it used to be the Baffin Region. It turns out that "qikiqtaq" means island so it's possible that the name is in some way related to that but I'm guessing. The only major animal that seems to be missing from the island is the muskox but there are sveral smaller ones not listed that can be found at List of land mammals of Nunavut. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Arctic Wolf?

Shouldn't it be the Baffin Island Wolf? Silverseren^C 20:12, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnes Ice Cap retreating since at least the early 1960s?

Citation is needed for this claim. Evidence disputing this claim can be found in TIME Magazine article Another Ice Age? (June 24, 1974): Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xificurk (talk • contribs) 22:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Sea Ice off Baffin Island.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sea Ice off Baffin Island.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on September 5, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-09-05. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 01:55, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

This natural-colour image shows winter sea ice melting off the eastern coastline of Canada's Baffin Island in summer (the only clouds visible here are along the right edge). Eddies along the coast have fashioned the ice into interlocking swirls, especially near Cumberland Sound (centre). Farther north, the ice is not melting as much. The sea ice retreat captured in this image appears typical of seasonal melt. Since the turn of the 21st century, however, Arctic sea ice extent has declined sharply, experiencing a series of low summertime extents and poor wintertime recoveries. Photo: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center Archive – More featured pictures...

Map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baffin.png

This isn't a very good map. I think it should be removed. Thoughts? Kennonv (talk) 05:17, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Which would you replace it with? CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 07:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC)