Baffin High Sea

These northern Atlantic waters lie south of Davis Strait, between Baffin Island and Greenland. The cold Labrador Current carries ice south from the strait, while winter ice spreads along the western side of the sea. Bowhead whales drew hunters into the surrounding waters: Inuit had long pursued them, and British whaling ships were working in Davis Strait by the middle of the eighteenth century. The opening between Greenland and Baffin Island also offered explorers a route towards Baffin Bay.