On January 13, 2010, First Air transferred all air services to Arctic Bay's newly expanded airport with service to Iqaluit and Resolute Bay.
Chivers has been admitted to the law society in Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Other features named after the expedition include the Markham Ice Shelf, Nares Strait and Alert, Nunavut, the most northerly permanently inhabited place on earth.
First Nations Bank of Canada plans to expand its Community Banking Centres to Baker Lake, Kugluktuk, and Pond Inlet in 2014.
In 1854 John Rae (explorer) traveled west from Repulse Bay, Nunavut and learned from the Inuit that a ship had been abandoned somewhere to the west.
The Canadian Science Writers Association bestowed a 2007 Science in Society journalism award for Gamble's first-person account of daily life at the Eureka High Arctic Weather Station.
Killiniq, Nunavut, a former town on Killiniq Island, abandoned around 1979
If plans to make a highway in Nunavut connecting from Churchill, and Arviat, Nunavut to Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut go through, then the first ever major road connection to Nunavut will be made.
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There have been talks of extending PTH 6 North to Churchill and the Nunavut border.
On May 3, 2008, the Kronos Quartet premiered a collaborative piece with Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, entitled Nunavut, based on an Inuit folk story.
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Jordin John Kudluk Tootoo (Inuktitut syllabics: ᔪᐊᑕᓐ ᑐᑐ; born February 2, 1983 in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).
It is native to northern North America, where it occurs in Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
For example, at the military and weather station Alert located at 82°30′05″N and 62°20′20″W, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, Canada (about 450 nautical miles or 830 km from the North Pole), the sun begins to peek above the horizon for minutes per day at the end of February and each day it climbs higher and stays up longer; by 21 March, the sun is up for over 12 hours.
Tavani, Nunavut, uninhabited mining camp and later trading post in Canada
After a brief stint at graduate school in Montreal, Quebec, he returned to Iqaluit in 2001 and later that year transferred to the remote settlement of Resolute, on Cornwallis Island, where he worked until 2003, when he moved to Halifax with his wife, Rachel Lebowitz.
Nunavut | Alert, Nunavut | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut | Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated | Nunavut (electoral district) | Baker Lake, Nunavut | Somerset Island (Nunavut) | Resolute, Nunavut | Repulse Bay, Nunavut | Tavani, Nunavut | Murchison River (Nunavut) | Killiniq, Nunavut | Eureka, Nunavut |
These expeditions have taken him across many regions of the circumpolar Arctic, including the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Fennoscandia; Greenland; Chukotka in Russia; and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, USA.
The Baffin coastal tundra is a small ecoregion of the far north of North America, on the central north coast of Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Berkeley Islands, also known as "Berkeley Group", located in Nunavut, Canada
Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, easterward from Norton Sound into western Ontario, and north to Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut.
Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada, named after explorer Robert Bylot
CFFB-TV, a television station (channel 8) licensed to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
A scientific study by the Centre for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) Queens College of the City of New York, individually names Chemetco as one of the top ten individual contributors of dioxins deposition at eight Nunavut land receptors, from a total of 44,000 potential sources in the United States.
CIQA-FM is a Weatheradio Canada station which broadcasts weather information and alerts on a frequency of 93.3 FM in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, in English, French and Inuktitut.
It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia.
Patterk Netser, former member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Nanulik.
In North America it is found from the Murchison River (Nunavut) west through the Bering Strait to the Bristol Bay (Bering Sea) in Alaska, and in the Russian Arctic from the northern part of the Bering Sea across the Arctic coast to Kara Sea and Kara River at the north end of the Urals.
Derek Rasmussen is the former policy advisor for Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, the elected body representing the Inuit of the independent Territory of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.
Eureka Pass is a mountain pass in the southern Princess Margaret Range of central Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Inuksuk Point (Enukso Point, Inuksugalait) is small peninsula on Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.
Killiniq Island, part of Nunavut, just offshore from the northernmost point of the Quebec-Labrador border in Canada
Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories, a region of the Northwest Territories until 1999, with similar but non-coterminal boundaries to Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut
It is an arctic species and has been collected from Baffin Island in north-eastern Canada to the central Brooks Range in northern Alaska and southward along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Arviat, Nunavut.
Somerville Island (74°44'N, 96°10'W), a small island in Barrow Strait, Nunavut, was named after her by Sir William Edward Parry in 1819 during the first of the four Arctic expeditions under his command.
As NetKaster they also provide Two-way Satellite Internet access to Alberta and parts of the NWT and Nunavut and planned expansion in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Yukon.
During the last week of June 2007, Okalik reportedly made derogatory comments to Iqaluit mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik about Lynda Gunn, an executive from the Nunavut Association of Municipalities, allegedly calling her a "fucking bitch".
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Okalik introduced the first Nunavut Human Rights Act, which had never been done in the former NWT, and took a principled stand on its need to cover homosexuals.
Polaris Reef is a reef, or shallows, in Frobisher Bay, near Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.
Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site, near Arviat in Nunavut formerly, an island but Qikiqtaarjuk is now part of the mainland
It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.
Tagak Curley, Inuit leader, politician and businessman from Nunavut
On his third and final voyage to the far north, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in Frobisher Bay in Baffin Island (present-day Nunavut) to give thanks to God and in a service ministered by the preacher Robert Wolfall they celebrated Communion.
Appointed in 2005 as Conciliator to resolve the impasse of the Government of Canada, Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated in reaching a common way forward for the Nunavut Land Claims Implementation Contract, Berger completed "The Nunavut Project" in 2006.
After working as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio announcer for a short period, Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons at the 1984 federal election, representing the electoral district of Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).
There are several major archaeological research projects that have been conducted on the Thule culture including the Torngat Archaeological Project, Somerset Island, The Clachan site, Coronation Gulf, Nelson River, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, the Bell site, Devon Island- QkHn-12, and the Cape York projects.
Jack Iyerak Anawak, Member of Parliament from Nunatsiaq, Nunavut, suggested the name Nanuq nanook, polar bear in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the popular "toonie".
As the final step in this long process, the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was signed on May 25, 1993 in Iqaluit by the Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and by Paul Quassa, the president of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, which replaced the TFN upon the ratification of the Nunavut Final Agreement.
Kimmirut Airport, the IATA code for the airport in Nunavut, Canada