Kugaaruk
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pelly Bay
Kugaaruk (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ Kuugaarjuk or ᑰᒑᕐᕈᒃ Kuugaarruk; English: "little stream") (also called Arviligjuaqy, meaning "the great bowhead whale habitat"), formerly known as Pelly Bay until 3 December 1999, is located on the shore of Pelly Bay, just off the Gulf of Boothia, Simpson Peninsula, Kitikmeot, in Canada's Nunavut territory. Access is by air at the Kugaaruk Airport, by annual supply sealift, and by sea ice. Kugaaruk means "little stream", the traditional name of the brook that flows through the hamlet.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kugaaruk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Hamlet
- Settlement.image_skyline
- View of Kugaaruk.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Overlooking the community
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Nunavut#Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Territory
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Electoral district
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nunavut
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kitikmeot
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Netsilik
- Settlement.established_title
- Catholic mission
- Settlement.established_date
- 1937
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Teddy Apsaktaun
- Settlement.leader_title1
- MLA
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 933
- Area
- 4.97
- Elevation
- 17
- Image
- View of Kugaaruk.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Kugaaruk
- inception
- 1937-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~7 min read
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Culture
- Kugaardjuq School
- Broadband communications
- Climate
- History
- Economy and services
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Kugaaruk (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ Kuugaarjuk or ᑰᒑᕐᕈᒃ Kuugaarruk; English: "little stream") (also called Arviligjuaqy, meaning "the great bowhead whale habitat"), formerly known as Pelly Bay until 3 December 1999, is located on the shore of Pelly Bay, just off the Gulf of Boothia, Simpson Peninsula, Kitikmeot, in Canada's Nunavut territory. Access is by air at the Kugaaruk Airport, by annual supply sealift, and by sea ice. Kugaaruk means "little stream", the traditional name of the brook that flows through the hamlet.
Near the hamlet is CAM-4, a North Warning System site that was once part of the Distant Early Warning Line.
On the map
3 mapped locations