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Nanook, in Inuit mythology, is the master of bears. Nanook, Nanuk, or Nanuq may also refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * Nanook (band), Greenlandic pop rock band * ''Nanook'' (TV series), whose title character is named Nanook * ''Nanook of the North'' (1922), a film by Robert Flaherty, often considered the first formal feature-length documentary * Nanook, Corey Haim's dog in the film ''The Lost Boys'' (1987) * "Nanook Rubs It", a song by Frank Zappa on the album ''Apostrophe'' (1974) * Nanoq Media, a company in Greenland Toys * Nanook, the name of a Beanie Baby * Nanook, the name of a Beanie Buddy Places * Nanook, a Viking settlement and archaeological site on Baffin Island * Nanuk, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Nanook River, Victoria Island, Canada * Nanook or Nanuk, alternate names of Menukin, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Nanuk-e Bala, alternate name of Naniz-e Olya, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Nanoq, a museum in Jakobstad, Finland ...
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Nanook
In Inuit religion, Nanook (; iu, ᓇᓄᖅ , lit. "polar bear") was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters deserved success in finding and hunting bears and punished violations of taboos. The word was popularized by ''Nanook of the North'', the first feature-length documentary. The Inuit believed that Nanook, the polar bear, was powerful and mighty, and they thought that he was "almost man." The Inuit hunters would worship this great bear because they believed that he decided if the hunters would be successful. “In the past, the Inuit ate polar bear meat and used the fur to make warm trousers for men and kamiks (soft boots) for women”."The Inuit and Polar Bears."
Polar Bears International. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.

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Operation Nanook (1946)
Operation Nanook was an Arctic expedition undertaken by the United States Navy in 1946. It consisted of , , USCGC Northwind (WAG-282), USCGC ''Northwind'' (WAG-282), , , and . The mission is mostly documented as Cartography, cartographic in nature. From 22 July to 5 August 1946, all activities in Operation Nanook centered on Qaanaaq, Thule; ''Norton Sound'' remained at anchor there, in North Star Bay, servicing her two Martin PBM Mariner, PBM's. Meanwhile, ''Whitewood'' and ''Atule'' operated from North Star Bay as they conducted exercises and tests in the Smith Sound-Kane Basin area. On 5 August 1946, ''Norton Sound'' and ''Whitewood'' headed for Dundas Harbour, Nunavut and Devon Island, in order to attempt air and surface operations there. Unfortunately, the ships found the harbor iced over, with a belt of pack ice extending out three miles down the coast. The ''Northwind'' broke ice in support of Operation Nanook. The mission The mission was to erect a radio and weather stati ...
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Edmonton Eskimos
The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at the Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium. The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times (including a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in 2015. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders and is one of the three community-owned teams in the CFL. The team discontinued using the "Eskimos" name in 2020, with the new name "Elks" being formally announced on June 1, 2021. Ownership The Edmonton Elks are one of three "community owned" teams in the CFL (owned by local shareholders). Edmonton Elks Football Team, Inc., is governed by a ten-member board of directors. The board consists of a chairman, treasurer, secretary, and sev ...
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Alaska Nanooks
The Alaska Nanooks are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Nanooks name is derived from the Inupiaq " nanuq", meaning polar bear. The school colors are blue and gold. The Nanooks compete at the NCAA Division II level for all sports except men's ice hockey (NCAA Division I). The majority of Nanooks sports are members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC), the hockey team is an Independent (after spending several years in the CCHA) and plays at the 4,595-seat Carlson Center located west of downtown Fairbanks, while the women's swim team is a member of the Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference (PCSC), the men's and women's skiing teams are members of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), and the rifle team competes as a member of the Patriot Rifle Conference. Sports sponsored Ice hockey Intercollegiate men's ice hockey began in the 1925–26 season. The team had competed as an i ...
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Project Nanook
Project NANOOK was a Cold War reconnaissance effort of the United States that used the 1st Boeing B-29 Superfortress variants, RB-29 missions for mapping and visual reconnaissance in the Arctic and along the Northern Soviet Union, Soviet Coast. Further reading

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Nanuk Remotely Controlled Weapon Station
The Nanuk is a remote weapon station (RWS) used for light and medium calibre weapons which can be installed on any type of armoured vehicles or Brown water patrol vessel. It is designed by Rheinmetall Canada, in Quebec, Canada. The word ''Nanuk'' () means "polar bear" in Inuktitut. It is considered to be a third-generation weapon station. Design The Nanuk is a remotely-controlled weapon station that can be integrated on various armoured vehicle platforms and used for different mission profiles. The Nanuk weapon station combines full stabilisation, long range day/night all-weather sights and a universal weapon cradle that integrates 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm and 12.7 mm weapons, and 40 mm automatic grenade launchers. Several weapons can be mounted to the platform, such as: * M2 12.7 mm heavy machine gun * M240/MAG-58 7.62 mm machine gun * M249 (Minimi) 5.56 mm machine gun * MG 3 7.62 mm machine gun * MG4 5.56 mm machine gun * MK19 ...
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Operation Nanook (2016)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian Forces in the e ...
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Operation Nanook (2014)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Royal Canadian Navy, Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian ...
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Operation Nanook (2012)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian Forces in the e ...
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Operation Nanook (2011)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Royal Canadian Navy, Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian ...
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Operation Nanook (2010)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian Forces in the e ...
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Operation Nanook (2009)
Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; french: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. Sovereignty patrols in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern Canada are conducted by the Canadian Rangers, Canadian Coast Guard in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The exercise portion is intended to train the different elements of the Canadian Armed Forces ( Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy) to operate in the Arctic environment. The following is a list of annual exercises that comprise Operation Nanook: 2007 Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic. Similar exercises have been conducted every year since. Elements of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with elements of the Canadian Forces ...
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