Kapuiviit
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Kapuiviit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᐳᐃᕖᑦ), formerly Jens Munk Island, is one of the Canadian arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island with an area of .
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Vinony's link graph records 434 inbound references to Kapuiviit, and connects out to Belcher Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands and Qikiqtaaluk Region.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NU, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Islands of Foxe Basin and Uninhabited islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region.
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Key facts
- Islands.name
- Kapuiviit
- Islands.image_name
- Jensmunkisland.png
- Islands.image_caption
- Location in Nunavut
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Canada Nunavut#Canada
- Islands.native_name_link
- Inuktitut
- Islands.location
- Foxe Basin
- Islands.archipelago
- Arctic Archipelago
- Islands.area_km2
- 920
- Islands.country
- Canada
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Nunavut
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Nunavut
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Region
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Qikiqtaaluk
- Islands.population
- Uninhabited
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 920
- Body of water
- Foxe Basin
- Image
- Jensmunkisland.png
- Width
- 32
- Length
- 55
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kapuiviit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᐳᐃᕖᑦ), formerly Jens Munk Island, is one of the Canadian arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island with an area of .
The island presently has no permanent resident population (since displacements driven by colonialism took place in the 1950s and 1960s) but it remains an important outpost camp in the Igloolik Island area. Historically, however, it was the location of Kapuivik, a hunting camp which is now an important archaeological site for the research of pre-Inuit peoples including the Dorset (Tuniit), Pre-Dorset and Paleo-Inuit. It was formerly named after Dano-Norwegian explorer Jens Munk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kapuiviit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations