Kimmirut (Nunavut)
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Name (Latin)
Kimmirut (Nunavut)
Coordinates
-69.8686 -69.8686 62.8467 62.8467 (gooearth )
Associated country
Canada
See Also From tracing place name
Lake Harbour (N.W.T.)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Email from CaOONL, June 11, 2004(Kimmirut (Nunavut); with the creation of Nunavut in 1999 the name of Lake Harbour was changed to Kimmirut)
- Geonet, June 8, 2004(Kimmirut--PPL, 62⁰0ʹ51N 69⁰0ʹ53W, variants: Lake Harbour, Lake Harbor; CA14 [Nunavut])
- Atlas of Canada Web site, June 9, 2004(Lake Harbour, NU; hamlet; 62⁰0ʹ51N 69⁰0ʹ5219W)
- GeoNames query, June 8, 2004(Kimmirut; hamlet, Nunavut; 62⁰0ʹ5048N - 69⁰0ʹ5219W; a search for Lake Harbour results in only in a bay retrieved)
Wikipedia description:
Kimmirut (Syllabics: ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ [kimːiɢut]; known as Lake Harbour until 1 January 1996) is a community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the shore of Hudson Strait on Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula. Kimmirut means "heel", and refers to a rocky outcrop in the inlet. It was at one time a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post. The Canadian explorer J. Dewey Soper used these posts as headquarters during his explorations in the 1920s and 1930s. The community is served by Kimmirut Airport and by annual supply sealift. A proposal in 2005 for a road to Iqaluit was determined to be impractical owing to roundabout routing over the mountains.
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