21.—The History of the North Water

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biology
• Main Authors: Dunbar, Moira, Dunbar, M. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1972
• Subjects: General Engineering; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Bylot Island; Greenland; Pond Inlet; Baffin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080455x00001788; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080455X00001788

In 1616 William Baffin, coasting up the icebound west coast of Greenland, reported: ‘The first of July we were come into an open sea, in the latitude of 75 degrees 40 minutes, which a new revived our hope of a passage…’ (Purchas 1625). From this point, at an unspecified longitude in the north part o...