Back Bathurst Inlet German بترزت اینلت، نوناووت Persian Bathurst Inlet French Bathurst Inlet Italian ᑭᖓᐅᓐ IU バサースト・インレット Japanese Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut Portuguese Батерст-Инлет Russian Bathurst Inlet Albanian Bathurst Inlet Swedish
Bathurst Inlet
Qingaut ᕿᙵᐅᓐ | |
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Settlement[1] | |
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  Bathurst Inlet  Bathurst Inlet | |
| Coordinates: 66°50′20″N 108°02′55″W / 66.83889°N 108.04861°W[2] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Territory | Nunavut |
| Region | Kitikmeot |
| Electoral district | Cambridge Bay |
| Government | |
| • Type | n/a |
| • MLAs | Pam Gross |
| Area (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 13.84 km2 (5.34 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC−07:00 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−06:00 (MDT) |
| Postal code | |
Bathurst Inlet (Inuinnaqtun: Qingaut[3] Kingaok, Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᙵᐅᓐ[4]), is a small Inuit community located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, at the mouth of the Burnside River.
The Inuit name for the community is Kingaun (old orthography) or Qingaut (new orthography), meaning nose mountain, which refers to a hill close to the community. Thus, the people of the area are referred to as "Kingaunmiut" (miut - people of).[5]
The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun, and is written using the Latin alphabet rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay and Umingmaktok syllabics are rarely seen and used mainly by the Government of Nunavut.
Bathurst Inlet is the traditional birthing grounds of a "key northern species", the large, migratory Bathurst herd of barren-ground caribou. Over millennia, the Inuit, First Nations and Métis depended on the Bathurst Inlet herd for survival.[6]
Like other communities in Nunavut, the only access is by aircraft. Although most tourists arrive from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, it is possible to charter an aircraft from Cambridge Bay. The community has no local phone service and contact with the outside world is maintained by satellite phone.
Like its sister community, Umingmaktok, schooling is provided by flying the students to Cambridge Bay and returning them for Christmas and the summer.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
2021censuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Bathurst Inlet". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ "Bathurst Inlet | Qingaut". Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ "NIRB 12MN036: Notice of Part 4 Screening for Sabina Gold & Silver Corp.'s "Back River" project proposal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ "Archived copy". Community Profiles. Kitikmeot Inuit Association. nd. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Bathurst Herd, Government of the Northwest Territories