Baffin

Baffin can mean:

  • Qikiqtaaluk Region, also called the Baffin Region, an administrative and census region of Nunavut, Canada
  • Baffin, Unorganized, part of the Baffin Region census division
  • South Baffin, a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
  • Baffin Island, an Arctic island of Nunavut
  • Baffin Island Current, an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay
  • Baffin Bay, a sea between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans
  • 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Greenland and Nunavut
  • Baffin Mountains, a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island
  • Baffin Region, Northwest Territories, a region of the Northwest Territories prior to division
  • Baffin Bay, Texas, a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre
  • William Baffin, a 17th century English navigator and discoverer
  • HMCS Baffin (T275), a World War II Isles class trawler of the Royal Canadian Navy
  • Blackburn Baffin, a torpedo bomber of the Fleet Air Arm

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