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Foxe Basin

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Foxe Basin, a widening of the waterway between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula, c.340 mi (550 km) long and c.225 mi (360 km) wide, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The basin is shallow and is ice-clogged most of the year.

Foxe Channel (c.200 mi/320 km long and c.90 mi/140 km wide) connects it with Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait.


Foxe Basin
an arm of the Atlantic in NE Canada, between Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island


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These explorations continued on until 1940 when the British-Canadian Arctic Expedition completed most of the geographical investigation of Foxe Basin.
The western edge of Baffin Island coincides with the hinge line between the Foxe Basin and structural uplands of Archean gneisses and Proterozoic metasediments that are cut by an extensive swarm of diabase dykes.
 
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