Kimmirut
Sign in to saveKimmirut (Syllabics: ; 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.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kimmirut
- Settlement.native_name
- ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Hamlet
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kimmirut.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kimmirut, Nunavut
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Nunavut#Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nunavut
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Qikiqtaaluk
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Electoral district
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- South Baffin
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Maliktuk Lyta
- Settlement.leader_title1
- MLA
- Settlement.leader_name1
- David Joanasie
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Population
- 426
- Area
- 2.27
- Elevation
- 53
- Official website
- www.kimmirut.ca
- Image
- Kimmirut.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kimmirut
- inception
- 1909-00-00
- native label
- ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ
- located in/on physical feature
- Baffin Island
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Kimmirut (Syllabics: ; 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kimmirut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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