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Baffin Island Current

Arctic Ocean current

Baffin Island Current (or Baffin Current) is an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean, along Baffin Island. Its sources are the West Greenland Current and outflow from the Arctic Ocean. Its speed is approximately 17 km (11 mi) per day.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ "Baffin Island Current -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
^ Münchow, Andreas; Falkner, Kelly K.; Melling, Humfrey (2015). "Baffin Island and West Greenland Current Systems in northern Baffin Bay". Progress in Oceanography. 132: 305–317. Bibcode:2015PrOce.132..305M. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.001.
^ "Baffin Bay & Davis Strait".
^ http://muenchow.cms.udel.edu/papers/MuenchowBaffinRevised_2cols.pdf

Arctic Ocean	East Greenland North Icelandic Norwegian Transpolar Drift Stream
Atlantic Ocean	Angola Antilles Azores Baffin Island Benguela Brazil Canary Cape Horn Caribbean East Greenland East Iceland Falkland Florida Guinea Gulf Stream Irminger Labrador Lomonosov Loop North Atlantic North Brazil North Equatorial Norwegian Portugal South Atlantic South Equatorial West Greenland West Spitsbergen
Indian Ocean	Agulhas Agulhas Return East Madagascar Equatorial Counter Indian Monsoon Indonesian Throughflow Leeuwin Madagascar Mozambique North Madagascar Somali South Equatorial West Australian
Pacific Ocean	Alaska Aleutian California Cromwell Davidson East Australian East Korea Warm Equatorial Counter Humboldt Indonesian Throughflow Kamchatka Kuroshio Mindanao North Equatorial North Korea Cold North Pacific Oyashio South Equatorial Tasman Front
Southern Ocean	Antarctic Circumpolar Tasman Outflow

Gyres

Major gyres	Indian Ocean Gyre North Atlantic Gyre South Atlantic Gyre North Pacific Gyre South Pacific Gyre
Other gyres	Beaufort Gyre Ross Gyre Weddell Gyre