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Close ✕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
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- 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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