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Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)

The largest and most productive recurrent polynya in the Arctic, lying in northern Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and northwest Greenland.

77.5, -75.0 · regional · recurrent; documented in Inuit knowledge and in European whaling records from the nineteenth century

is depends on of Inuit — Communities on both the Greenlandic and Canadian sides hunt marine mammals and birds concentrated by the polynya, and the settlement pattern of both coasts is arranged around it.
instance of Polynya — The North Water is the largest recurrent Arctic polynya and the best-documented single example of the phenomenon.

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The largest and most productive recurrent polynya in the Arctic, lying in northern Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and northwest Greenland.

77.5, -75.0 · regional · recurrent; documented in Inuit knowledge and in European whaling records from the nineteenth century

is depends on of Inuit — Communities on both the Greenlandic and Canadian sides hunt marine mammals and birds concentrated by the polynya, and the settlement pattern of both coasts is arranged around it.
instance of Polynya — The North Water is the largest recurrent Arctic polynya and the best-documented single example of the phenomenon.