Whale Cove
| Whale Cove Tikirarjuaq |
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kitikmeot region | ||
| Coordinates : | 62 ° 10 ′ N , 92 ° 35 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 40 m | ||
| Area : | 283.65 km² | ||
| Residents : | 353 (as of 2006) | ||
| Population density : | 1.2 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Central Time ( UTC − 6 ) | ||
| Postal code : | X0C 0J0 | ||
| Area code : | +1 867 | ||
| Mayor : | Percy Kabloona | ||
Whale Cove ( ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ , Tikirarjuaq in Inuktitut ) is a settlement in Canada's Nunavut Kivalliq region between Arviat and Rankin Inlet on the western Hudson Bay coast. The name (German "Walbucht") refers to the large numbers of white whales frolicking here in summer . Her Inuktitut name is Tikirarjuak, "elongated headland". With about 350 inhabitants (97% of them Inuit) it is one of the smaller Inuit communities . There is a regional flight connection with Arviat.
At the beginning of the 17th century, Thomas Button and a little later Luke Foxe came to this stretch of coast in search of the Northwest Passage . About a hundred years later they were followed by the Hudson's Bay Company and a few kilometers from what is now Whale Cove, the Tavani trading post, which had long since been abandoned, was built. The Whale Cove settlement itself came into being during an Inuit famine in the winter of 1957/1958 when the vital caribou herds failed to appear. The government brought together the surviving inland and coastal Inuit from their hunting grounds in the Barrenlands here as well as in Arviat and Baker Lake . The traditional Inuit way of life has been preserved to this day.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
