Kivitoo
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Kivitoo is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, approximately to the south, in 1963. Kivitoo Memorial Park remains at the southern shore of the hamlet.
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It sits within the topics Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Whaling in Canada and Whaling stations in Canada.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Kivitoo is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, approximately to the south, in 1963. Kivitoo Memorial Park remains at the southern shore of the hamlet.
==History== In the early 20th century, the Sabellum Trading Company established a post at Kivitoo to service the whalers who would anchor there to flense carcasses. The post was abandoned in 1926.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kivitoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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