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Igloolik Island, the Glossary

Table of Contents

  1. 24 relations: Arctic (journal), Arctic Archipelago, Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Baffin Island, Foxe Basin, Igloo, Igloolik, Inuit, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut syllabics, Isuma, Köppen climate classification, List of regions of Nunavut, Melville Peninsula, National Historic Sites of Canada, Nunavut, Polar climate, Post-glacial rebound, Provinces and territories of Canada, Qarmaq, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtaarjuk.

  2. Inhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region
  3. Islands of Foxe Basin
  4. National Historic Sites in Nunavut

Arctic (journal)

Arctic is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, scientific journal, published by the Arctic Institute of North America.

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Arctic Archipelago

The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) and Iceland (an independent country).

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Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site

The Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site contains two areas: Arvia'Juaq and Qikiqtaaruk. Igloolik Island and Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site are national Historic Sites in Nunavut.

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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ) is a 2001 Canadian epic film directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and produced by his company Isuma Igloolik Productions.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Igloolik Island and Baffin Island are Inhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region.

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Foxe Basin

Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula.

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Igloo

An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.

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Igloolik

Igloolik (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ, Iglulik) is an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, northern Canada.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (/inuit qaujimajatuqaŋit/, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᑦ; sometimes Inuit Qaujimanituqangit - ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᑐᖃᖏᑦ) is an Inuktitut phrase that is often translated as "Inuit traditional knowledge", "Inuit traditional institutions" or even "Inuit traditional technology".

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Inuktitut

Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from, 'person' + -titut, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.

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Inuktitut syllabics

Inuktitut syllabics (qaniujaaqpait, or ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅᓄᑖᖅ) is an abugida-type writing system used in Canada by the Inuktitut-speaking Inuit of the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik and Nunatsiavut regions of Quebec and Labrador, respectively.

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Isuma

Isuma (Inuktitut syllabics, ᐃᓱᒪ; Inuktituk for 'to think') is an artist collective and Canada's first Inuit-owned (75%) production company, co-founded by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak Angilirq and Norman Cohn in Igloolik, Nunavut in 1990.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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List of regions of Nunavut

The Canadian territory of Nunavut, which was established in 1999 from the Northwest Territories by the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, is divided into three regions.

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Melville Peninsula

Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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Nunavut

Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Polar climate

The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters.

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Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Qarmaq

Qarmaq (plural: "qarmat") is an Inuktitut term for a type of inter-seasonal, single-room family dwelling used by Inuit.

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Qikiqtaaluk Region

The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Qikiqtaarjuk

Qikiqtaarjuk (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᕐᔪᒃ) formerly Deer Island is one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Igloolik Island and Qikiqtaarjuk are islands of Foxe Basin.

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See also

Inhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region

Islands of Foxe Basin

National Historic Sites in Nunavut

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloolik_Island