Baird Peninsula
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Baird Peninsula
Location in Nunavut
Baird Peninsula is a peninsula in west central Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It juts into the Foxe Basin past Longstaff Bluff. Prince Charles Island lies to the south.[1]
It is named in honor of the Scottish explorer and glaciologist Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird (1913–1984).[2]