A body of water between Baffin Island in Canada and Greenland, connecting Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea and named for the English explorer John Davis. It is a key habitat corridor for whales, seals and other Arctic marine life.
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Source Davis Strait - Wikipedia
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Source Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Wikipedia)Geographic range, northwest limitQuote, Geographic range, northwest limit
The distribution limits are the Norwegian Sea in the northeast, the Davis Strait in the northwest, coastal North Carolina in the southwest and the Celtic Sea in the southeast
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Source Psednos groenlandicus (FishBase)DistributionQuote, Distribution
Northwest Atlantic: Davis Strait.
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1. Davis Strait - Wikipedia
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65°N 58°W
Infobox, Coordinates field, longitude value
65°N 58°W
Shaped By: Faulting, Geology
The Davis Strait is underlain by complex geological features of buried grabens (basins) and ridges, formed by strike-slip faulting of the Ungava Fault Zone during Paleogene times about 45 million to 62 million years ago.
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