Repulse Bay Attractions
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Repulse Bay
Administrative unit: Nunavut
Access
By plane: From Winnipeg via Churchill or Eskimo Point and Rankin Inlet to Repulse Bay (Naujaat).
Location
Forming the most north-easterly point of mainland Nunavut (designated an independent territory in 1999), is the Melville Peninsula, over an isthmus just 70 km (43 mi.) wide separating Hudson Bay from the Gulf of Boothia. Repulse Bay (Naufaat) lies on the south side of the isthmus exactly on the Arctic Circle (marked by an arc of stones at the airfield).
History
The "European" chapter of this part of Canada's history opened in 1741 when Captain Middleton sailed into the deep bay - known to the Inuit as "Naujaat" (5 gulls' nesting place) - in search of the Northwest Passage.
Administrative unit: Nunavut
Access
By plane: From Winnipeg via Churchill or Eskimo Point and Rankin Inlet to Repulse Bay (Naujaat).
Location
Forming the most north-easterly point of mainland Nunavut (designated an independent territory in 1999), is the Melville Peninsula, over an isthmus just 70 km (43 mi.) wide separating Hudson Bay from the Gulf of Boothia. Repulse Bay (Naufaat) lies on the south side of the isthmus exactly on the Arctic Circle (marked by an arc of stones at the airfield).
History
The "European" chapter of this part of Canada's history opened in 1741 when Captain Middleton sailed into the deep bay - known to the Inuit as "Naujaat" (5 gulls' nesting place) - in search of the Northwest Passage.