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Inuvik's Our Lady of Victory Church, often called Igloo Church, is a famous landmark in the region. It is the most-photographed building in the town [citation needed]. Inuvik has the Midnight Sun Mosque, North America's northernmost, which opened in November 2010 after being built in Winnipeg and moved 4,000 km (2,500 mi) by truck and barge. [51]
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [5] [6] The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. [7]
Of the six communities in the ISR all are located in the Northwest Territories [12] and, along with Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic, form the Inuvik Region. [ 13 ] Inuvik , located on the East Channel of the Mackenzie Delta, approximately 100 km (62 mi) from the Arctic Ocean , is the region's administrative centre, home to the Inuvialuit ...
The Midnight Sun Mosque, also known as the Inuvik Mosque or Little Mosque on the Tundra, [1] is a non-denominational Islamic house of worship located in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. [2] The mosque was built in 2010 for the town's small Muslim community.
The Inuvik Region or Beaufort Delta Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of eight communities with the regional office situated in Inuvik . [ 1 ]
Today the area around the Husky Lakes remains culturally and economically important to the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik. [1] In the spring, fishing for lake trout , lake whitefish , cod and pike is a major traditional source of food for the Inuvialuit. [ 9 ]
Aklavik / ə ˈ k l æ v ɪ k / (Inuvialuktun: Akłarvik) (from the Inuvialuktun meaning barrenground grizzly place [4]) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Until 1961, with a population over 1,500, the community served as the regional administrative centre for the territorial government.
This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit.The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous Canadians inhabiting the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut that are collectivity referred to as Inuit Nunangat.