Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut
Bathurst Inlet (Inuinnaqtun: Qingaut Kingaok, Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᙵᐅᓐ), is a small Inuit community located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Bathurst Inlet
Qingaut ᕿᙵᐅᓐ | |
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Settlement | |
Bathurst Inlet from the air with the old mission visible | |
Bathurst Inlet Bathurst Inlet | |
| Coordinates: 66°50′20″N 108°02′55″W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Territory | Nunavut |
| Region | Kitikmeot |
| Electoral district | Cambridge Bay |
| Government | |
| • Type | n/a |
| • MLAs | Pam Gross |
| Area (20221) | |
| • Total | 13.84 km2 (5.34 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC−07:00 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−06:00 (MDT) |
| Postal code | X0C 0E0 |
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).
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.