Grise Fiord
| Grise Fiord Aujuittuq ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ |
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| Location in Nunavut | |||
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Qikiqtaaluk | ||
| Coordinates : | 76 ° 25 ′ N , 82 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 332.7 km² | ||
| Residents : | 129 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 0.4 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | X0A 0J0 | ||
| Mayor : | Meeka Kigutak | ||
 At the port of Grise Fiord |
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Grise Fiord is the northernmost parish of Nunavut Territory and is considered one of the northernmost parishes on earth . In the Inuit language ( Inuktitut ) the settlement is called Aujuittuq (ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ), which means "land that never thaws" (see also Auyuittuq National Park ). It is located on the south coast of Ellesmere Island in the middle of the Arctic Cordillera and has 129 inhabitants (around 85 percent of them Inuit). The name Grise Fiord comes from Norwegian and means "pig fjord"; The Norwegian Otto Sverdrup , who explored the area here between 1899 and 1902, awarded it to this fjord because the grunts of the many walruses that live here reminded him of pigs.
Ellesmere Island is rich in prehistoric sites, but in historical times no Inuit lived here, apart from the group of Baffin- Inuit, who in the middle of the 19th century under the leadership of Qillaq (later in Greenland Qillarssuaq , “the large Qillaq “) from the area around Iglulik and Cape Dorset to North Greenland has passed through here.
In 1922, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police established an outpost at a location known as Craig Harbor , 55 kilometers southeast of Grise Fjord, where the Canadian government finally established eight Inuit families from the communities of Inukjuaq (Northern Québec) and Pond Inlet ( North coast of Baffin Island ) (see also Resolute Bay ). In 1956 the police moved the settlement from Craig Harbor to Grise Fiord. In 1962 the government built a school building and introduced a residential program.
Grise Fiord is nestled on the high coast of Jones Sound , and the small airfield serves only charter airlines. Landing is relatively often not possible due to fog. The polar night begins on November 1st and ends on February 9th; the polar day lasts 24 April to 18 August.
literature
- The Nunavut Handbook. Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya, Iqaluit 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses. In: Statistics Canada . February 20, 2019, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
- ^ Grise Fiord needs nurses, social worker: mayor . In: CBC News , February 17, 2011, accessed March 15, 2011
- ^ Community Profiles from 2006 Census , Statistics Canada (English), accessed March 15, 2011