Baffin Bay
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Baffin Bay, located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a
Major North Atlantic currents.
An iceberg at the edge of the Baffin Bay's sea ice.
Fog over Baffin Bay
On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident, involving a United States Air Force B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of
Baffin Bay
…in seas west of Greenland; primarily in Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait, but with several smaller concessions in the Greenland Sea in the east also. 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash Baffin, William (1881), Markham, Clements R. (ed.), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612–1622, Hakluyt Society…
A B-52G, similar to the one that crashed at Thule Air Base
BMEWS antennas at Thule, with a modern Satellite Control Network radome on the right, 1984
Thule Air Base in the foreground with North Star Bay, which was covered in sea ice at the time of the accident, in the background
Inuit around the base worked with the U.S. Air Force to get to the B-52 crash. The sleds were the only way to get to the crash site