Geology, Lower Paleozoic Geology, Central and eastern parts of Foxe Basin and Baird Peninsula, Baffin Island

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
H P Trettin
Keyword(s):  
Baffin Island ◽  
Lower Paleozoic ◽  
Foxe Basin

Glacial dispersal train of Paleozoic erratics, central Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1818-1826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton R. Tippett
Keyword(s):  
Baffin Island ◽  
The West ◽  
Quaternary Sediment ◽  
Foxe Basin

A glacial dispersal train of erratics derived from Paleozoic bedrock has been delineated stretching east-northeast–west-southwest across central Baffin Island. The lithologies of these erratics suggest a derivation from strata of member B of the Ordovician Ship Point Formation to the west, which are presently either submerged or covered by Quaternary sediment in the eastern part of Foxe Basin. These Paleozoic erratics were carried from Foxe Basin onto the Baffin Upland and the western edge of the Davis Highlands. They can be inferred to have reached at least Ekalugad Fiord and the eastern part of Home Bay.

The Foxe Basin Coasts of Baffin Island

1943 ◽  
Vol 101 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Baffin Island ◽  
Foxe Basin

Bernhard Hantzsch: the probable cause of his death in Baffin Island in 1911

Polar Record ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (117) ◽  
pp. 593-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Baffin Island ◽  
Foxe Basin ◽  
The North ◽  
Cumberland Sound

Bernhard Hantzsch was a German zoologist and explorer, born in 1875, whose first work in Canada was in northernmost Labrador in 1906. He returned to the north in 1909 with the object of exploring the then unknown Foxe Basin coast of Baffin Island. His plan was to set off from Cumberland Sound and travel with Eskimos across Baffin Island by way of Nettilling Lake and the Koukdjuak River, follow the coast north and west to Fury and Hecla Strait, and then make his way to Pond Inlet. Unfortunately, the ship that was taking him to Kerketen sank in Cumberland Sound; although all aboard made their way safely to Blacklead Island, most of his supplies were lost. Nevertheless he set off, ill-equipped, in the spring of 1910 with a group of Eskimos. By the end of the year he had established winter quarters at the mouth of what is now 245 Sylvan called the Hantzsch River, with two families, Aggakdjuk, his wife Arnga and their children, and Ittusakdjuak and his wife Sirkinirk.

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