Bernard Harbour

Survey party transporting an umiak using a sled on Bernard Harbour in 1915

Bernard Harbour (Inuit: Nulahugiuq)[1] is a bay on the mainland of Nunavut, Canada. It is situated on Dolphin and Union Strait, southwest of Sutton Island.

At one time, it was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. It is also a former Distant Early Warning Line (PIN-C) and current North Warning System site.[2] As of August 2004, there were several abandoned structures remaining at the site.[3]

The harbour is well sheltered and can accommodate ships up to 6.1 m (20 ft) in draught.[4]

The butterfly Colias johanseni is found in the area.[5]

The Hudson's Bay Company vessel Aklavik over-wintered at Bernard Harbour, in 1930, where she sank.[6] She was refloated and repaired.

The closest inhabited community is Kugluktuk, about 100 km (62 mi) south of Bernard Harbour.

  1. ^ Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254
  2. ^ The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland
  3. ^ "PIN-C Bernard Harbour, Nunavut". The DEWLine. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  4. ^ Canada. Dept. of the Interior. Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, Lachan Taylor Burwash (1931). Canada's western Arctic: Report on investigations in 1925-26, 1928-29, and 1930 (Digitized May 30, 2007 ed.). F.A. Acland. p. 13.
  5. ^ Layberry, Ross A.; Peter W. Hall; J. Donald Lafontaine (1998). The butterflies of Canada. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. University of Toronto Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-8020-7881-8.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference KitikmeotHeritage was invoked but never defined (see the help page).