Baffin Bay (Texas) Baffin Bay (Texas) Baffin Bay is a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre. Located near the Gulf of Mexico, Baffin Bay forms part of the boundary between Kenedy County and Kleberg County. The history of the bay name is unclear. The most popular story is that Captain Mifflin Kenedy (1818–1895), after visiting the Arctic Baffin Bay as a young man, gave the same name to the bay in Texas because of the remarkable contrast between the bays. The Arctic Baffin Bay is located between the Baffin Island of Canada and Greenland, and it is about
Investigator Strait Kangaroo Island. A number of protected areas are located both within and adjoining the Strait’s extent. The following reserves are located on the south coast of Yorke Peninsula (from west to east): The following reserves are located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island (from west to east): The following reserve is located on Althorpe Islands, Haystack Island and Seal Island at the north-west end of the strait: Investigator Strait Investigator Strait is a body of water in South Australia lying between the Yorke Peninsula, on the Australian mainland, and Kangaroo Island. It was named by Matthew Flinders after his