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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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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