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Foxe Basin, highlighted in this Envisat image, is located north of Hudson Bay between Baffin Island (visible along the right side of the image) and the Melville Peninsula (not visible but located to the west, or left). The large round island visible in the top left is Prince Charles Island. Located directly west, or right, of Prince Charles Island is Air Force Island. This image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 15 July 2008, working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres.