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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
Foxe Basin 

a bay in the Arctic Ocean, between Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island, Canada. Foxe Basin is 650 km long and 370 km wide and has a maximum depth of 110 m. It is linked by straits with Hudson Bay, the Gulf of Boothia, and the Hudson Strait. The bay contains many islands, the largest of which is Prince Charles Island. The tides are semidiurnal and vary in height from 1.2 to 9 m. The bay begins to freeze in October. Drifting ice continues throughout the summer. Foxe Basin was named in honor of L. Foxe.
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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.
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Scientists with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans estimate there are at least 600 bowhead whales in two separate populations--one in Foxe Basin in north Hudson Bay, and the other along the east coast of Baffin Island near Baffin Bay.
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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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