Naujaat
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 Naujaat in October 2004 |
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kivalliq | ||
| Local community: | Naujaat | ||
| Coordinates : | 66 ° 31 ′ N , 86 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 424.27 km² | ||
| Residents : | 945 (status: 2011-05-02) | ||
| Population density : | 2.2 inhabitants / km² | ||
 Former trading post of the Revillon Frères on Repulse Bay (1928) |
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Naujaat ( ᓇᐅᔮᑦ , "place where seagulls nest"), until July 2, 2015 Repulse Bay , is a settlement in Repulse Bay on the northwest corner of Hudson Bay on the stem of the Melville Peninsula with 945 inhabitants as of the 2011 census, of which 95% Inuit .
The Repulse Bay area has been an Inuit settlement area for centuries , as evidenced by many Inuksuit (plural Inuksuk , “like a person”). There are signs on which travelers between Repulse Bay and Iglulik or Kugaaruk orientated themselves.
Christopher Middleton was the first European to reach the bay in 1742. Whalers came here regularly from 1860 until whaling came to an end in 1914. The Hudson's Bay Company established a permanent trading post in 1919, as the trade in fox skins captured here flourished until the 1950s. In the 1930s, the first Roman Catholic and Anglican missionaries appeared. In the 1940s, the Inuit of Repulse Bay began making stone and walrus and ivory sculptures .
From Rankin Inlet , Repulse Bay can be reached with regional airlines.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
