Taloyoak
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kitikmeot region | ||
| Coordinates : | 69 ° 32 ′ N , 93 ° 32 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 28 m | ||
| Area : | 37.65 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1029 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 27.3 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain Time ( UTC − 7 ) | ||
| Postal code : | X0B 1B0 | ||
| Area code : | +1 867 | ||
| Mayor : | Charlie Lyall | ||
Taloyoak (Inuktiut: Talurjuaq ; formerly Spence Bay), Nunavut , Kitikmeot region , geographically located on the southern border of the Boothia Peninsula , is the northernmost mainland settlement in Canada with around 809 inhabitants (91% of them Inuit ). Its name is derived from a mutilation of the Inuktitut word Talurqjuaq, "cover when caribou hunt". The residents of the area call themselves Natsilik- Inuit or Natsilingmiut after the name for seal (Natsiq).
The air-line distance from Yellowknife is 1,224 kilometers and from Cambridge Bay 460 kilometers. The temperature in July is between 3.2 and 11.5 ° C, in January between -39.5 and -29.7 ° C.
The area was first visited by John Ross in 1829 and 1833. In 1848 and 1860 Europeans and Americans came again - this time in search of John Franklin's missing expeditionary corps .
The Taloyok community began in 1948 when the Hudson's Bay Company closed its trading post at Fort Ross, which was on the south coast of Somerset Island , 250 kilometers to the north and rebuilt at Stanners Harbor on Spence Bay. A police post was established a little later, and a Roman Catholic and an Anglican mission station followed in the early 1950s. The change of the place name Spence Bay in Taloyoak took place on July 1, 1992.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
- Ernie Lyall: An Arctic Man - Sixty-five Years in Canada's North . Formac Publishing Company, Edmonton 1979, ISBN 0-88780-106-4 (English).
