Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut

This article is about the village. For the body of water, see Bathurst Inlet.

Bathurst Inlet
Qingaut
ᕿᙵᐅᓐ
Settlement[1]
Bathurst Inlet from the air with the old mission visible
Bathurst Inlet from the air with the old mission visible
Bathurst Inlet is located in Nunavut
Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet is located in Canada
Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet
Coordinates: 66°50′20″N 108°02′55″W / 66.83889°N 108.04861°W / 66.83889; -108.04861[2]
CountryCanada
TerritoryNunavut
RegionKitikmeot
Electoral districtCambridge Bay
Government
 • Typen/a
 • MLAsPam Gross
Area
 (20221)[1]
 • Total13.84 km2 (5.34 sq mi)
Elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total0
Time zoneUTC−07:00 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−06:00 (MDT)
Postal code
X0C 0E0

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.

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]

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  2. ^ "Bathurst Inlet". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  3. ^ "Bathurst Inlet | Qingaut". Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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)
  6. ^ Bathurst Herd, Government of the Northwest Territories