Davis Strait

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Davis Strait, lying between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada.     Nunavut     Quebec     Newfoundland and Labrador     Regions outside Canada (Greenland, Iceland)
Davis Strait, lying between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada.     Nunavut     Quebec     Newfoundland and Labrador     Regions outside Canada (Greenland, Iceland)

Davis Strait (French: Détroit de Davis; 65°0′N, 58°0′0) lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

With a water depth of one to two km it is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north. It is underlain by complex geological features of buried Grabens (basins) and ridges, probably formed by strike-slip faulting during Paleogene times about 45 million to 62 million years ago. The strike-slip faulting transferred plate-tectonic motions in the Labrador Sea to Baffin Bay.

The strait was named for the English explorer John Davis (1550–1605), who explored the area while seeking a Northwest Passage.

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