Baffin Island
Baffin Island is an island in Nunavut, Canada. It's the world's fifth largest island. It is larger in area than Spain, but has a population of only 13,000 people. It lies to the west of Greenland, across the Baffin Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Iqaluit and Pangnirtung.
Iqaluit
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Iqaluit is the capital and largest settlement of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is on a southeastern inlet of Baffin Island. As of 2016, the population stood at just over 7,700 people.
Pangnirtung
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Pangnirtung is an Inuit hamlet of 1,500 people on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It serves as the starting point for trekkers departing for the Akshayuk Pass in Auyuittuq National Park.
Auyuittuq National Park
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Auyuittuq National Park is a national park in Nunavut. In the Inuktitut language, its name means "the land that never melts". If despite that warning, you're still interested in visiting, you'll experience many terrains of Arctic wilderness, such as fjords, glaciers, and ice fields.
Baffin Island
- Type: Island with 13,100 residents
- Description: largest Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Baffin Land”
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baffin Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baffin-eiland”
- Arabic: “بافن”
- Arabic: “بافين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بافن”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بافين”
- Armenian: “Բաֆինի երկիր”
- Asturian: “Islla de Baffin”
- Azerbaijani: “Baffin adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Baffin Torpağı”
- Balinese: “Nusa Baffin”
- Bashkir: “Баффин Ере”
- Basque: “Baffin irla”
- Basque: “Baffin Lurra”
- Basque: “Baffin uhartea”
- Basque: “Baffin”
- Belarusian: “Бафінава Зямля”
- Belarusian: “Зямля Бафіна”
- Bengali: “ব্যাফিন দ্বীপ”
- Bosnian: “Baffinov otok”
- Bosnian: “Baffinovo ostrvo”
- Breton: “Enez Baffin”
- Bulgarian: “Бафинова земя”
- Catalan: “Baffin Island”
- Catalan: “Baffin”
- Catalan: “Illa Baffin”
- Catalan: “illa de Baffin”
- Catalan: “Illa de Baffin”
- Catalan: “Terra de Baffin”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Baffin”
- Chinese: “Baffin Tó”
- Chinese: “巴芬岛”
- Chinese: “巴芬島”
- Croatian: “Baffin Island”
- Croatian: “Baffinov otok”
- Croatian: “Baffinova zemlja”
- Croatian: “Helluland”
- Czech: “Baffin Island”
- Czech: “Baffinův ostrov”
- Danish: “Baffin Island”
- Danish: “Baffin Land”
- Dutch: “Baffin Eiland”
- Dutch: “Baffineiland”
- Dutch: “Baffinland”
- Dutch: “Île de Baffin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بافين”
- Esperanto: “Baffin-insulo”
- Esperanto: “Bafina Insulo”
- Estonian: “Akilinek”
- Estonian: “Baffini maa”
- Estonian: “Baffini saar”
- Estonian: “Qikiqtaaluk”
- Faroese: “Baffinsland”
- Fiji Hindi: “Baffin Island”
- Finnish: “Baffin Island”
- Finnish: “Baffininsaari”
- French: “Ile de Baffin”
- French: “île de Baffin”
- French: “Île de Baffin”
- French: “Terre de Baffin”
- Galician: “Illa de Baffin”
- Georgian: “ბაფინის მიწა”
- German: “Baffin Island”
- German: “Baffin-Insel”
- German: “Baffininsel”
- German: “Baffinland”
- Greek: “Γη του Μπάφιν”
- Greek: “Νησί Μπάφιν”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μπάφιν”
- Hebrew: “אי באפין”
- Hebrew: “באפין”
- Hindi: “बैफ़िन द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Baffin-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Baffineyja”
- Icelandic: “Baffinsland”
- Indonesian: “Baffin Island”
- Indonesian: “Baffin”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Baffin”
- Irish: “Oileán Baffin”
- Italian: “Baffin Island”
- Italian: “Baffin”
- Italian: “Isola Baffin”
- Italian: “Isola di Baffin”
- Italian: “Terra di Baffin”
- Japanese: “バッフィン島”
- Japanese: “バフィン島”
- Kalaallisut: “Baffin Island”
- Kazakh: “Баффин жері”
- Kazakh: “Баффин Жері”
- Kirghiz: “Баффин жери”
- Korean: “배핀섬”
- Latin: “Insula Baffini”
- Latvian: “Bafina sala”
- Latvian: “Bafina zeme”
- Latvian: “Kikiktāluka”
- Lithuanian: “Baffino Žemė”
- Lithuanian: “Bafino sala”
- Lithuanian: “Bafino Žemė”
- Macedonian: “Бафинов Остров”
- Macedonian: “Бафинова Земја”
- Malay: “Pulau Baffin”
- Malayalam: “ബാഫിൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Marathi: “बॅफिन बेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Baffin Tó”
- Mingrelian: “ბაფინიშ დიხა”
- Northern Frisian: “Baffin Eilun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffin Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffinøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffinøyen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffin Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffinland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffinøya”
- Norwegian: “Baffinøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Baffin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra de Baffin”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hellualand”
- Ossetian: “Баффины зæхх”
- Ossetian: “Баффины Зæхх”
- Panjabi: “ਬੈਫਿਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Persian: “جزیره بافین”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ بافین”
- Polish: “Ziemia Baffina”
- Portuguese: “Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Ţara Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Țara Baffin”
- Russian: “Баффинова Земля”
- Samogitian: “Bafina žemė”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baffin Island”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Bhaffin”
- Serbian: “Baffinisland”
- Serbian: “Бафинова земља”
- Serbian: “Бафиново острво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baffinov otok”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula Baffin”
- Slovak: “Baffinov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Baffinov otok”
- Spanish: “Baffin Island”
- Spanish: “Baffin”
- Spanish: “Isla Baffin”
- Spanish: “isla de Baffin”
- Spanish: “Isla de Baffin”
- Spanish: “Tierra de Baffin”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Baffin”
- Swedish: “Baffinön”
- Swedish: “Baffins land”
- Swedish: “Île de Baffin”
- Swedish: “Qikiqtaaluk”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Baffin”
- Tajik: “Замини Баффин”
- Tamil: “பாஃபின் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Баффин Җире”
- Thai: “เกาะแบฟฟิน”
- Turkish: “Baffin Adası”
- Turkish: “Baffin Island”
- Ukrainian: “Баффінова Земля”
- Upper Sorbian: “Baffinska kupa”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ بفین”
- Uzbek: “Baffin yeri”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baffin Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Baffin”
- Welsh: “Ynys Baffin”
- Western Frisian: “Baffinlân”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرا بیفن”
- Wu Chinese: “巴芬岛”
- Yue Chinese: “巴芬島”
- “Bafina žemė”
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