Gjoa Haven
| Gjoa Haven Uqsuqtuuq ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ |
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 Gjoa Havens main street |
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| Location in Nunavut | |||
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kitikmeot | ||
| Coordinates : | 68 ° 38 ′ N , 95 ° 53 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 47 m | ||
| Area : | 28.47 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1324 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 46.5 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain Time ( UTC − 7 ) | ||
| Postal code : | X0B 1J0 | ||
| Area code : | +1 867 | ||
| Mayor : | Joanni Sallerina | ||
Gjoa Haven ( Inuktitut : Uqsuqtuuq ; Syllabics : ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ, "place with lots of bacon") is a place in the Kitikmeot region in the Nunavut Territory , Canada with about 1,300 inhabitants (94% of them Inuit ). It is located on the Neumayer Peninsula on the southeast coast of King William Island in the Rasmussen Basin . In 1961 only about 100 people lived here. The community is one of the fastest growing settlements in Nunavut, as many previously nomadic Inuit settle here.
Surname
It got its name after the wooden ship Gjøa , with which the Norwegian Roald Amundsen was the first to conquer the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906.
The Inuktitut name is Uqsuqtuuq ( Syllabics : ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ) and means “place with lots of bacon”, as whole herds of seals used to stay here. The Inuit of the area therefore also call themselves Natsilik- Inuit or Natsilingmiut (from Inuktitut "natsiq", seal).
climate
Gjoa Haven lies in the zone of the polar tundra climate (according to the classification developed by Köppen ). The climate is characterized by cool summers and extremely cold winters and is generally very dry. On February 14, 1990, Gjoa Haven recorded the lowest temperature in the period from 1981 to 2010 with -50.2 ° C. The maximum value of 24.1 ° C was reached on July 6, 1996.
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Gjoa Haven, King William Island
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history
In 1848 John Franklin's third expedition (the so-called " Franklin Expedition ") to search for a Northwest Passage on King William Island came to a tragic end. It was not until eleven years later, in 1859, that Francis Leopold McClintock reached the island as the next European in search of the Franklin Expeditionary Corps.
More than four decades later, Roald Amundsen came here when he and six men of the crew were crossing the Northwest Passage with the Gjøa . Amundsen hibernated twice and used the stay to familiarize himself with the traditional way of life of the Natsilik Inuit. While the crew remained on the ship, he quartered himself with the Inuit. In the year and a half, there were also closer contacts between the seafarers and female natives, which is why today there are not a few of the settlement residents who are related to the Norwegians.
Roman Catholic and Anglican missionaries later arrived, and in 1927 the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post.
Gjoa Haven produced a number of gifted Inuit artists ; the best known was Judas Ullulaq (1937–1999).
traffic
The Gjoa Haven Airport ( IATA : YHK, ICAO : CYHK) is 2.8 km southwest of Gjoa Haven and has a gravel runway of 1,341 meters in length.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Census Profile, 2016 Census. Subprovincial geography levels: Nunavut. In: Statistics Canada . February 9, 2017, accessed August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Gjoa Haven , Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010 Station Data, accessed May 26, 2016 (English)
