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Davis Strait

Straits and Channels

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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Latitude
65 degrees north 1
Longitude
58 degrees west 1
Connections

Borders

Canada, Countries

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Source Davis Strait - Wikipedia
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1. Davis Strait - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Coordinates field, latitude value
    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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Wikidata: Davis Strait
Wikidata Q189262, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source

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