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Inuksuk Point (Enukso Point, Inuksugalait) is a small peninsula on
Foxe Peninsula Foxe Peninsula is a peninsula found at the southern end of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It juts out from the southerly end of the island in a southwestly direction, dividing Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait. Its western ...
, approximately from
Kinngait Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning "high mountain" or "where the hills are"; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), formerly known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin ...
(formerly Cape Dorset) on the southwest of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. This location is renowned due to a group of more than 100 '' inuksuit'' - stone cairns built by
Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
. The site has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 23 October 1969.


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{{NHSC Inuit culture National Historic Sites in Nunavut Archaeological sites in Nunavut Peninsulas of Baffin Island