Ninginganiq (Isabella Bay) National Wildlife Area,
Clyde River, Northeast Baffin, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

September 3, 2018 - Day 8 of Quark's Northwest Passage
Voyage. --- The day's activities, sights, and sounds on YOUTUBE:
youtu.be/CFQQIlcjnKw

The Inuktitut word ‘Ninginganiq’ translates roughly as ‘the place where fog sits’.

The Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area, proposed by the community of Clyde River, was designated in 2010 and is the largest NWA in Canada measuring over 336,000 hectares. Located 120 km south of Clyde River, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, the NWA includes the shoreline and islands of Isabella Bay as well as the adjacent ocean out to 12 nautical miles from shore.

It provides an important marine habitat, creating ideal conditions for Bowhead Whales, particularly in the summer. Up to 100 bowheads have been recorded at one time in Isabella Bay, making this the single largest known concentration for this species anywhere in Canada. Bowhead Whales have been assessed as threatened in Canada. Only subsistence hunting by the Inuit population is allowed.

BOWHEAD WHALE (Balaena mysticetus)

The Bowhead Whale is a large and powerful marine mammal. Adult whales can reach a length of 45-60 feet. They have massive bow-shaped skulls, that can come up through ice over 20 centimetres (8 in.) thick and crack the ice with the crown of their heads.

They navigate and communicate under extensive ice fields using its sophisticated acoustic sensory skills.

While some of the bowhead population moves westward through Lancaster Sound in late June and early July, others, mainly adults and large adolescents, remain off the east coast of Baffin Island for the summer and fall.

Bowhead Whales live only in arctic and sub-arctic waters -- they don't migrate to warmer waters for reproduction. Bowheads were an early whaling target, and the Baffin Island sub-population, once down to a few hundred individuals, is listed as endangered. Recent surveys over the last decade, although they vary wildly, indicate a population rebound to several thousand.

Bowheads have no dorsal fin, but sport the largest mouth of any animal. They are not as gymnastic as humpbacks, but do show some fluke when diving deep. They are also known to live at least 200 years.

Bowhead Whales are baleen whales that feed on zooplankton, which includes copepods, euphauslids, mysids, and other invertebrates and fish.

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Ninginganiq (Isabella Bay) National Wildlife Area,
Clyde River, Northeast Baffin, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

September 3, 2018 - Day 8 of Quark's Northwest Passage
Voyage. --- The day's activities, sights, and sounds on YOUTUBE:
youtu.be/CFQQIlcjnKw

The Inuktitut word ‘Ninginganiq’ translates roughly as ‘the place where fog sits’.

The Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area, proposed by the community of Clyde River, was designated in 2010 and is the largest NWA in Canada measuring over 336,000 hectares. Located 120 km south of Clyde River, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, the NWA includes the shoreline and islands of Isabella Bay as well as the adjacent ocean out to 12 nautical miles from shore.

It provides an important marine habitat, creating ideal conditions for Bowhead Whales, particularly in the summer. Up to 100 bowheads have been recorded at one time in Isabella Bay, making this the single largest known concentration for this species anywhere in Canada. Bowhead Whales have been assessed as threatened in Canada. Only subsistence hunting by the Inuit population is allowed.

BOWHEAD WHALE (Balaena mysticetus)

The Bowhead Whale is a large and powerful marine mammal. Adult whales can reach a length of 45-60 feet. They have massive bow-shaped skulls, that can come up through ice over 20 centimetres (8 in.) thick and crack the ice with the crown of their heads.

They navigate and communicate under extensive ice fields using its sophisticated acoustic sensory skills.

While some of the bowhead population moves westward through Lancaster Sound in late June and early July, others, mainly adults and large adolescents, remain off the east coast of Baffin Island for the summer and fall.

Bowhead Whales live only in arctic and sub-arctic waters -- they don't migrate to warmer waters for reproduction. Bowheads were an early whaling target, and the Baffin Island sub-population, once down to a few hundred individuals, is listed as endangered. Recent surveys over the last decade, although they vary wildly, indicate a population rebound to several thousand.

Bowheads have no dorsal fin, but sport the largest mouth of any animal. They are not as gymnastic as humpbacks, but do show some fluke when diving deep. They are also known to live at least 200 years.

Bowhead Whales are baleen whales that feed on zooplankton, which includes copepods, euphauslids, mysids, and other invertebrates and fish.

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Ninginganiq (Isabella Bay) National Wildlife Area,
Clyde River, Northeast Baffin, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

September 3, 2018 - Day 8 of Quark's Northwest Passage
Voyage. --- The day's activities, sights, and sounds on YOUTUBE:
youtu.be/CFQQIlcjnKw

The Inuktitut word ‘Ninginganiq’ translates roughly as ‘the place where fog sits’.

The Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area, proposed by the community of Clyde River, was designated in 2010 and is the largest NWA in Canada measuring over 336,000 hectares. Located 120 km south of Clyde River, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, the NWA includes the shoreline and islands of Isabella Bay as well as the adjacent ocean out to 12 nautical miles from shore.

It provides an important marine habitat, creating ideal conditions for Bowhead Whales, particularly in the summer. Up to 100 bowheads have been recorded at one time in Isabella Bay, making this the single largest known concentration for this species anywhere in Canada. Bowhead Whales have been assessed as threatened in Canada. Only subsistence hunting by the Inuit population is allowed.

BOWHEAD WHALE (Balaena mysticetus)

The Bowhead Whale is a large and powerful marine mammal. Adult whales can reach a length of 45-60 feet. They have massive bow-shaped skulls, that can come up through ice over 20 centimetres (8 in.) thick and crack the ice with the crown of their heads.

They navigate and communicate under extensive ice fields using its sophisticated acoustic sensory skills.

While some of the bowhead population moves westward through Lancaster Sound in late June and early July, others, mainly adults and large adolescents, remain off the east coast of Baffin Island for the summer and fall.

Bowhead Whales live only in arctic and sub-arctic waters -- they don't migrate to warmer waters for reproduction. Bowheads were an early whaling target, and the Baffin Island sub-population, once down to a few hundred individuals, is listed as endangered. Recent surveys over the last decade, although they vary wildly, indicate a population rebound to several thousand.

Bowheads have no dorsal fin, but sport the largest mouth of any animal. They are not as gymnastic as humpbacks, but do show some fluke when diving deep. They are also known to live at least 200 years.

Bowhead Whales are baleen whales that feed on zooplankton, which includes copepods, euphauslids, mysids, and other invertebrates and fish.

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Ninginganiq (Isabella Bay) National Wildlife Area,
Clyde River, Northeast Baffin, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

September 3, 2018 - Day 8 of Quark's Northwest Passage
Voyage. --- The day's activities, sights, and sounds on YOUTUBE:
youtu.be/CFQQIlcjnKw

The Inuktitut word ‘Ninginganiq’ translates roughly as ‘the place where fog sits’.

The Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area, proposed by the community of Clyde River, was designated in 2010 and is the largest NWA in Canada measuring over 336,000 hectares. Located 120 km south of Clyde River, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, the NWA includes the shoreline and islands of Isabella Bay as well as the adjacent ocean out to 12 nautical miles from shore.

It provides an important marine habitat, creating ideal conditions for Bowhead Whales, particularly in the summer. Up to 100 bowheads have been recorded at one time in Isabella Bay, making this the single largest known concentration for this species anywhere in Canada. Bowhead Whales have been assessed as threatened in Canada. Only subsistence hunting by the Inuit population is allowed.

BOWHEAD WHALE (Balaena mysticetus)

The Bowhead Whale is a large and powerful marine mammal. Adult whales can reach a length of 45-60 feet. They have massive bow-shaped skulls, that can come up through ice over 20 centimetres (8 in.) thick and crack the ice with the crown of their heads.

They navigate and communicate under extensive ice fields using its sophisticated acoustic sensory skills.

While some of the bowhead population moves westward through Lancaster Sound in late June and early July, others, mainly adults and large adolescents, remain off the east coast of Baffin Island for the summer and fall.

Bowhead Whales live only in arctic and sub-arctic waters -- they don't migrate to warmer waters for reproduction. Bowheads were an early whaling target, and the Baffin Island sub-population, once down to a few hundred individuals, is listed as endangered. Recent surveys over the last decade, although they vary wildly, indicate a population rebound to several thousand.

Bowheads have no dorsal fin, but sport the largest mouth of any animal. They are not as gymnastic as humpbacks, but do show some fluke when diving deep. They are also known to live at least 200 years.

Bowhead Whales are baleen whales that feed on zooplankton, which includes copepods, euphauslids, mysids, and other invertebrates and fish.

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Ninginganiq (Isabella Bay) National Wildlife Area,
Clyde River, Northeast Baffin, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

September 3, 2018 - Day 8 of Quark's Northwest Passage
Voyage. --- The day's activities, sights, and sounds on YOUTUBE:
youtu.be/CFQQIlcjnKw

The Inuktitut word ‘Ninginganiq’ translates roughly as ‘the place where fog sits’.

The Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area, proposed by the community of Clyde River, was designated in 2010 and is the largest NWA in Canada measuring over 336,000 hectares. Located 120 km south of Clyde River, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, the NWA includes the shoreline and islands of Isabella Bay as well as the adjacent ocean out to 12 nautical miles from shore.

It provides an important marine habitat, creating ideal conditions for Bowhead Whales, particularly in the summer. Up to 100 bowheads have been recorded at one time in Isabella Bay, making this the single largest known concentration for this species anywhere in Canada. Bowhead Whales have been assessed as threatened in Canada. Only subsistence hunting by the Inuit population is allowed.

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