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Baffin Island Current

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Arctic Ocean current

Baffin Island Current (orBaffin Current) is anocean current running south down the western side ofBaffin Bay in theArctic Ocean, alongBaffin Island. Its sources are theWest Greenland Current and outflow from theArctic Ocean. Its speed is approximately 17 km (11 mi) per day.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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^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".
^Münchow, Andreas; Falkner, Kelly K.; Melling, Humfrey (2015)."Baffin Island and West Greenland Current Systems in northern Baffin Bay"(PDF).Progress in Oceanography.132. Elsevier BV:305–317.doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.001.ISSN 0079-6611. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 10 March 2024. Retrieved5 November 2024.

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

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