Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: "Saknirutiak Imanga"; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about , known as the North Water, opens in summer on the north near Smith Sound. Most of
East Bay (Nova Scotia) north of Boularderie Island and the Little Bras d'Or Channel to south of Boularderie Island, the waters of East Bay are brackish, partially fresh/ salt water. East Bay opens to the south-west directly onto the Bras d'Or Lake and lies between the Boisdale Hills to the north and the East Bay Hills to the south. The bay measures wide at its mouth, between Benacadie Point to the north, and Middle Cape to the south and runs easterly to its terminus at Portage. East Bay has of shoreline. The bay's shores are generally heavily wooded and consist mainly of bold and