Bathurst Inlet
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 Bathurst Inlet: Inuit settlement and naturalist lodge |
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| Location in Nunavut | |||
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kitikmeot | ||
| Coordinates : | 66 ° 50 ′ N , 108 ° 2 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 0 (as of 2016) | ||
 Evening mood at Bathurst Inlet |
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Bathurst Inlet - called "nose" by the Inuit after a nearby mountain Qingguak (or Kingoak) - is an abandoned settlement in Nunavut .
It is surrounded by Barrenlands (literally: "barren land"), hilly tundra landscape with Esker relics from the last Ice Age and rivers rich in ravines - examples: Burnside River with Burnside Falls and Hood River with Wilberforce Falls - at the mouth of Burnside Inlet South west end of Bathurst Inlet. Bathurst Inlet , which gives the settlement its name, is a fjord that extends north to the Coronation Gulf ( Arctic Ocean ). The settlement can only be reached by charter flight from Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay .
The explorer Sir John Franklin was the first European to reach the area in August 1821. The first non-Inuit who lived there permanently arrived in 1929 and set up a camp for raw material exploration. A little later the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post. A Roman Catholic mission station was founded around 1945. In the 1950s, however, the trading post and mission station were abandoned. In the mid-1960s, a former police officer and his wife (Glenn and Trish Warner) bought the area together with two Qingguamiut families and converted the building including the church into a lodge for ecotourism ("naturalist lodge"), which is still today is operated during the summer months.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
- John R. Sperry: Igloo Dwellers Were My Church: The Memoirs of Jack Sperry, Anglican Bishop of the Arctic . Bayeux Arts, Calgary 2001, ISBN 1-896209-58-0 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census Profile, 2016 Census - Bathurst Inlet, Settlement. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .