Pangnirtation
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 Pangnirtung settlement (Panniqtuuq) |
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Qikiqtaaluk | ||
| Coordinates : | 66 ° 12 ′ N , 65 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 7.77 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1425 (status: 2011-05-10) | ||
| Population density : | 183.4 inhabitants / km² | ||
 View from the Duval River to Pangnirtung with the ship landing and Pangnirtung Fjord |
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Pangnirtung (Pangniqtuuq) , "place of the caribou bull" is after Iqaluit and Pond Inlet the third largest of the eight settlements of the Baffin Island ( Nunavut region Qikiqtaaluuk ). The community had 1,425 inhabitants as of the census on May 10, 2011 and is located in the southeastern part of Baffin Island on a narrow coastal strip on the Pangnirtung Fiord, a tributary of the Cumberland Sound (Tinnujivik) that runs to the north, in front of a rugged, approximately 800 m high mountain panorama . The place has a scheduled flight connection ( First Air ).
In 1894, the Anglican Reverend James Peck (1850-1924) came to the region and established a first mission station on Blacklead Island (Ummanagjuaq) on the south coast of Cumberland Sound. He also taught the Inuit the syllabic system ("syllabic system") for Inuktitut , the language of the Inuit; the system spread from here over the whole of the Canadian northeast. In 1921 a trading post was established by the Hudson's Bay Company , and in 1923 the first post of the Canadian Police (RCMP). In 1929 the medical care Anglican St. Luke's Mission Hospital was established. In 1956 the Canadian government sent the first teacher to Pangnirtung and in 1962 set up a local administration.
In 1973 the “Uqqurmiut Center for Arts and Crafts” was established in Pangnirtung, the most recent center for art graphics (stencil prints) and woven wall hangings in the north of Canada. Notable artists include: Malaya Akulukjuk (1912–1995), Elisapee Ishulutaq (* 1925), Annie Kilabuk (1932–2005), Tommy Nuvaqirq (1911–1982), Lypa Pitsiulak (* 1943), Andrew Qappik (* 1964).
Pangnirtung is also known as a starting point for trekking tours in Auyuittuq National Park and for boat tours to the Kekerten Historic Park off the southwest coast of the Cumberland Peninsula, where relics of the whaling station operated between 1840 and 1920 on Kekerten Island (Qikiqtaq) can be viewed.
Pangnirtung settlement (Pangniqtuuq)
Pangnirtung: Building for the production of Inuit art graphics
View from Pangnirtung over the fjord of the same name towards Aujuittuq National Park (southwest side)
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
- Robert Frank: Pangnirtung , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-86930-198-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Pangnirtung in the catalog of the German National Library