Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized in
Nunavut
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, Canada, is part of a larger
census division
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known as the
Qikiqtaaluk Region
The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut nam ...
. This area covers the whole Qikiqtaaluk Region outside the 13 communities such as
Iqaluit
Iqaluit is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is the territory's largest community and its only city, and the northernmost city in Canada. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast on ...
,
Resolute
Resolute may refer to:
Geography
* Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, a hamlet
* Resolute Bay, Nunavut
* Resolute Mountain, Alberta, Canada
Military operations
* Operation Resolute, the Australian Defence Force contribution to patrolling Australia's Exc ...
or
Grise Fiord
Grise Fiord (; ) is an Inuit hamlet on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of three populated places on the island; despite its low population (144 residents at the 2021 Canadian census), ...
. Qikiqtaaluk has a rocky mountainous landscape. Prior to the
2021 Canadian census
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it was known as Baffin.
Included in the area are the weather station at
Eureka
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* Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
* Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
Eureka or Ureka may also refer to:
History
* Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 g ...
and the
Canadian Forces base
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Minor i ...
at
Alert (
CFS Alert
Canadian Forces Station Alert (), often shortened to CFS Alert (), is a signals intelligence intercept facility of the Canadian Armed Forces at Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere ...
).
It is Canada's largest
census subdivision
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in terms of area.
2021 Demographics
''
2021 Canadian census
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''
*Population (2021): 0
*Population change (2016-2021):
*Private dwellings:
*Area:
*Density:
Named places
Named places listed in 2021 by
Statistics Canada
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are:
*
Achiwapaschikisit
*
Akulivik
Akulivik () ( 2021 population 642) is an Inuit village in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. It is located on a peninsula that juts southwesterly into Hudson Bay across from Smith Island, Nunavut (Qikirtajuaq). Akulivik lies 1,850 km nort ...
*
Alert
*
Alexandra Fiord
Alexandra Fiord is a natural inlet on the Johan Peninsula of Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
To the east, it opens into Buchanan Bay.
History
Alexandra Fiord has a long and variable history, from the Paleo and T ...
*
Amadjuak
*
Askwasimwakwanan
* Baffin, Unorganized
*
Cape Dyer
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*
Cape Smith
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Charlton Depot
*
Craig Harbour
Craig Harbour () is an abandoned settlement in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Ellesmere Island, on the north shore of Jones Sound, southeast of Grise Fiord.
In 1922, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment was es ...
*
Dundas Harbour
Dundas Harbour (Inuktitut: ''Talluruti'', "a woman's chin with tattoos on it") is an abandoned settlement in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Devon Island at the eastern shore of the waterway also named Dundas Harbour () ...
*
Fort Conger
Fort Conger is a former settlement, military fortification, and scientific research post in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It was established in 1881 as an Arctic exploration camp, notable as the site of the first major northern polar ...
*
Hazen Camp
*
Ikaaqtalik
*
Inuksualuuk
*
Ipiutaq
*
Irqatarvik
*
Isachsen
Isachsen is a remote Arctic research-weather station named after the Norwegian explorer of the Arctic Gunnar Isachsen. It is on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island in the Sverdrup Islands, in the territory of Nunavut in Canada. Isachsen ...
*
Kekerten
*
Killiniq
*
Kipisa
*
Kivitoo
Kivitoo is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, approximately to the south, in 1963. Kivitoo Memorial Park remains a ...
*
Mikwasiskwaw Umitukap Aytakunich
*
Naparutalik
*
Nottingham Island
* Nunavut
*
Nuwata
*
Padloping Island
Paallavvik (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᐹᓪᓚᕝᕕᒃ'', ''Paallavvik'' means 'the place where one stumbles', from ''paallat'' 'to stumble' + -''vik'' 'place for X-ing', or ''paallakpuq'' 'to fall down (forward), trip, fall forward') formerly P ...
*
Polaris
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Port Burwell
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Qajalinga
*
Qikiqtaaluk
* Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized
*
Quanatulik
*
Resolution Island
*
Tanquary Camp
*
Tuniit
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from to between and , that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic. The culture and people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in N ...
*
Wimin
According to
Natural Resources Canada
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, through the
Geographical Names Board of Canada
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(
GeoBase
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) the location is in
Quebec
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Other places not listed by Statistics Canada include:
*
Brooman Point Village
Based on archeological finds, Brooman Point Village is an abandoned village in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the central High Arctic near Brooman Point () of the Gregory Peninsula, part of the eastern coast of Bathurst Isl ...
*
Iglunga
*
Port Leopold
References
Qikiqtaaluk Region
Unorganized areas in Canada
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