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Although the Qikiqtaaluk Region is the most commonly used name in official contexts, several notable public organizations, including Statistics Canada prior to the 2021 Canadian census, [3] use the older term Baffin Region. With a population of 18,988 and an area of 989,879.35 km 2 (382,194.55 sq mi), slightly smaller than Egypt, it is the ...
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]
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Qikiqtaaluk (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ [1]) formerly Sillem Island [2] is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.It is the second largest (after Bylot Island) of the several hundred islands and islets that are located in Baffin Bay, immediately off the northern coast of Baffin Island.
Qikiqtaaluk (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ [1]), formerly White Island, [2] is one of the uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located in Foxe Basin off the northern tip of Southampton Island , it measures 789 km 2 (305 sq mi) in area.
It is at the northern end of Resolute Bay and the Northwest Passage and is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region. Resolute is one of Canada's northernmost communities and is second only to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island (Alert and Eureka are more northerly but are not considered towns; rather, military outposts and weather stations).
The population accounts for 67.37% of the 19,355 people in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, 56.51% of the population of the Arctic Archipelago, and 35.38% of the population of Nunavut. [2] [49] [50] As of the 2016 Canadian census the majority, 74.06%, were Indigenous peoples and 25.83% were non-Indigenous. This compares to 88.85% and 14.12% Indigenous ...
Prior to the 2021 Canadian census the Qikiqtaaluk Region and the Kivalliq Region were known as the "Baffin Region" and the "Keewatin Region" to the agency). [1] [2] It is a misconception that Nunavut's regions constitute the former regions of the Northwest Territories (NWT), separated in their entirety. This is not the case, rather, the ...