Kinngait
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Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning 'high mountain' or 'where the hills are'; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ or ᑭᖖᒉᑦ), known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kinngait
- Settlement.native_name
- Sikusiilaq
- Settlement.other_name
- ᑭᙵᐃᑦ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Hamlet
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Cape Dorset Kinngait 1997-05-04.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Part of the village with characteristic Kinngait hill,May 1997
- Settlement.nickname
- Capital of Inuit Art
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- 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
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- Federal Electoral district
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Nunavut
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Population
- 1396
- Area
- 9.89
- Elevation
- 50
- Official website
- www.capedorset.ca/en/index.asp
- Image
- Cape Dorset Kinngait 1997-05-04.jpg
- Dialing code
- 867
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- inception
- 1913-00-00
- postal code
- X0A 0C0
- Commons category
- Kinngait
- native label
- ᑭᙵᐃᑦ
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning 'high mountain' or 'where the hills are'; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ or ᑭᖖᒉᑦ), known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
==History== Kinngait, previously Cape Dorset and Sikusiilaq before that is where the remains of the Thule (Early Inuit) and pre-Inuit Dorset people (Tuniit) were discovered, who lived between 1000 BCE and 1100 CE. The European name of Cape Dorset was given by Captain Luke Foxe after Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, on 24 September 1631. The Inuit originally called the inlet Sikusiilaq, after the area of sea ocean nearby that remains ice-free all winter. Hudson's Bay Company set up a trading post here in 1913, where they traded furs and skins for supplies such as tobacco, ammunition, flour, gas, tea and sugar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kinngait” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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