Kekerten Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Southernmost of the Kikastan Islands, it is located in the

Cumberland Sound Cumberland Sound (french: Baie Cumberland; Inuit: ''Kangiqtualuk'') is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a western arm of the Labrador Sea located between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula ...

, off Baffin Island's

Cumberland Peninsula Cumberland Peninsula is a peninsula in the southeastern part of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is located between 64°56' and 67°57' north latitude, and 61°56' to 68° west longitude. The Arctic Circle crosses the peninsula, with the Labr ...

Akulagok Island Akulagok Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It belongs to the Kikastan Islands, located in the Cumberland Sound, off Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula. On its south side, Kekerten Harbour lies between ...

forms Kekerten Harbour with the island.

Tuapait Island Tuapait Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the Kikastan Islands, located in the Cumberland Sound, off Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula. To its south lie Akulagok Island and Kekerten Isl ...

lies to the north. Beacon Island,

Kekertukdjuak Island Kekertukdjuak Island formerly Kekertuk Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located where Kingnait Fiord joins the Cumberland Sound, off Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in t ...

Miliakdjuin Island Miliakdjuin Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located southeast of the Kikastan Islands in the Cumberland Sound, off Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula. Akulagok Island, Kekerten Island, Kekert ...

Tesseralik Island Tesseralik Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Cumberland Sound, off Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, and is one of the islands forming Brown Harbour. Akulagok Island, Aupalukto ...

, and

Ugpitimik Island Utaqqiurviarjuruluk (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᐅᑕᖅᑭᐅᕐᕕᐊᕐᔪᕈᓗᒃ'') formerly Ugpitimik Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located at the mouth of Pangnirtung Fiord, in the Cumbe ...

are in the vicinity. Kekerten Territorial Park is located on the island. Scottish whalers had been fishing in the Cumberland Sound since the early 19th century and with the arrival of the American whalers in the 1850s winter stations were established. The

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whaler, Cpt.

William Penny Captain William Penny (1809–1892) was a Scottish shipmaster, whaler and Arctic explorer. He undertook the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin. In 1840, Penny established the first whaling station in the Cumberland Sound a ...

spent several winters around 1883–84 at Kekerten. The anthropologist Franz Boas similarly lived at the Kekerten settlement while studying Baffin Island for 13 months starting in August 1883. In 1915, Kekerten was purchased by Robert Kinnes & Co. and operated as a trading post until it was sold to the

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...

in 1923. With the establishment of the main HBC post at

Pangnirtung Pangnirtung (or Pang, also Pangniqtuuq, in syllabics: ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᖅ ) is an Inuit hamlet, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. Pangnirtung is situated on a coastal plain at the coast of P ...

, Kekerten was abandoned in 1925.

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Kekerten Island
in the

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- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada Islands of Baffin Island Islands of Cumberland Sound Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region National Historic Sites in Nunavut Whaling in Canada Whaling in Scotland Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub