Angijak Island

Angijak Island lies off Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, in the cold waters of Davis Strait. The peninsula's coast is cut by deep fjords and fringed with islands, with Greenland across the strait to the east. Inuit hunted bowhead whales in the waters of the wider region long before European whalers arrived. English navigator John Davis explored the Cumberland Peninsula in 1585; by the middle of the eighteenth century British whalers were hunting in the strait that bears his name.