Baffin Land
a Canadian island, crossed by the Arctic Circle; area, about 236,000 square miles.
BAFFIN SEA (erroneously styled a Bay), a large expanse of water in North America, between Greenland and the lands or islands N. of Hudson Bay, extending from 68° to 78° N., and 55° to 80° W. It communicates with the Atlantic Ocean by Davis Strait on the S., with the Arctic Ocean by Lancaster Sound and Jones Sound on the W., and with the Polar Sea by Smith Sound and Robeson Channel on the N. Depth, 200- 1,050 fathoms. The tides do not rise more than 10 feet. The surface of the sea is covered with ice during the greater part of the year. The coasts are mountainous, barren, and deeply indented with gulfs. Whale and seal fishing is followed.
This sea was discovered by the English navigator, Baffin, in 1616.
BAGDAD BAGAMOYO (bag-a-moi'o), a town of former German East Africa, on the coast opposite the island of Zanzibar; pop. about 25,000. It is an important trading station for ivory, iron, copra, gum and caoutchouc. Bagamoyo is a point of departure for caravans into the interior. The chief imports are cottons, iron ware, rice, oil, spirits, and beer.
BAGASSE (bä-gäs'), the sugar cane in its dry, crushed state, as delivered from the mill, and after the main portion of its juice has been expressed; used as fuel in the sugar factory, and called also cane trash.