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Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun
Inuinnaqtun

Inuinnaqtun is an indigenous language of Canada. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and many people believe that Inuinnaqtun is only a dialect of Inuktitut....
: Iqaluktuuttiaq Inuktitut
Inuktitut syllabics

The Inuktitut syllabary is a writing system used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec. In 1976, the Language Commission of the Inuit Cultural Institute made it the co-official script for the Inuit languages, along with the Latin alphabet....
: ?????????) (2006 population
Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
 1,477; UA population
Urban area

An urban area is an area with an increased Population density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be city, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlet ....
 1,147) named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge , was the tenth child and seventh son of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz....
, is a hamlet
Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural Human settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community....
 located in the Kitikmeot Region
Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region is an Region regions of Nunavut Nunavut. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut....
 of Nunavut
Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. The traditional Inuinnaqtun name for the area is Ikaluktuutiak (old orthography
Orthography

The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. Orthography is derived from Greek language ????? orth?s and ???fe?? gr?phein ....
) or Iqaluktuttiaq (new orthography) meaning "good fishing place".

The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun and is written using the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 rather than the syllabics
Inuktitut syllabics

The Inuktitut syllabary is a writing system used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec. In 1976, the Language Commission of the Inuit Cultural Institute made it the co-official script for the Inuit languages, along with the Latin alphabet....
 of the Inuktitut writing system.






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Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun
Inuinnaqtun

Inuinnaqtun is an indigenous language of Canada. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and many people believe that Inuinnaqtun is only a dialect of Inuktitut....
: Iqaluktuuttiaq Inuktitut
Inuktitut syllabics

The Inuktitut syllabary is a writing system used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec. In 1976, the Language Commission of the Inuit Cultural Institute made it the co-official script for the Inuit languages, along with the Latin alphabet....
: ?????????) (2006 population
Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
 1,477; UA population
Urban area

An urban area is an area with an increased Population density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be city, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlet ....
 1,147) named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge , was the tenth child and seventh son of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz....
, is a hamlet
Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural Human settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community....
 located in the Kitikmeot Region
Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region is an Region regions of Nunavut Nunavut. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut....
 of Nunavut
Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. The traditional Inuinnaqtun name for the area is Ikaluktuutiak (old orthography
Orthography

The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. Orthography is derived from Greek language ????? orth?s and ???fe?? gr?phein ....
) or Iqaluktuttiaq (new orthography) meaning "good fishing place".

The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun and is written using the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 rather than the syllabics
Inuktitut syllabics

The Inuktitut syllabary is a writing system used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec. In 1976, the Language Commission of the Inuit Cultural Institute made it the co-official script for the Inuit languages, along with the Latin alphabet....
 of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Kugluktuk
Kugluktuk, Nunavut

File:Wildflowers, Kugluktuk, Nunavut .jpgKugluktuk is a hamlet located at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island ....
, Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut

Bathhurst Inlet, , is a small Inuit community located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut of Canada's Nunavut Territory. As of the Canada 2006 Census the population was 0 as opposed to 5 people in the Canada 2001 Census....
 and Umingmaktok
Umingmaktok, Nunavut

The community of Umingmaktok is located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut of Canada's Nunavut Territory. The community was previously known as Bay Chimo and the Inuit refer to the community as Umingmaktuuq ....
 syllabics are rarely seen and used mainly by the Government of Nunavut.

Location and population

Located on the south coast of Victoria Island Cambridge Bay is a transportation and administrative center for the western Kitikmeot Region. As of the 2006 census
Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
 the population was 1,477 an increase of 12.8% from the 2001 census
Canada 2001 Census

The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 15 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada....
. The population is approximately 80% Inuit
Inuit

Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska, United States....
. It is a normal stop for passenger and research vessels traversing the Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
.

The area was a traditional hunting and fishing location and archeological sites are often found. Barren-ground caribou
Barren-ground Caribou

Barren-ground Caribou are a subspecies of Reindeer that are found mainly in the Canada territories Nunavut and the Northwest Territories and western Greenland....
, muskox, Arctic char
Arctic char

Arctic char or Arctic charr is both a freshwater and Seawater fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, subarctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters....
, lake trout
Lake trout

Lake trout is a freshwater Salvelinus living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char , touladi, togue, and grey trout....
 and ringed seal
Ringed Seal

The ringed seal , also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal inhabiting the northern coasts....
 were the primary and remain important food sources today. Situated east of Cambridge Bay is Ovayok Territorial Park
Ovayok Territorial Park, Nunavut

Ovayok Territorial Park is a park situated 15 Kilometer east of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada. The park is relatively small and covers an area of approximately 16 km? ....
.

History

Cambridge Bay was the site of Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the federal police, national police, and paramilitary police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world....
 (RCMP) and Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the mo...
 outposts established during the 1920s. Following World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 a LORAN tower
Cambridge Bay LORAN Tower

Cambridge Bay LORAN Tower is a tall free-standing lattice tower at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada. It was built in 1947/48 for LORAN transmissions....
 was built near the previous location of Cambridge Bay and a Distant Early Warning Line
Distant Early Warning Line

The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland....
 site established in 1955. Unlike the majority of the DEW Line radar sites which were abandoned or automated, this site, known as CAM-MAIN, remains a manned operation as part of the North Warning System
North Warning System

The North Warning System is a series of radar stations across Arctic North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America's polar region....
. The military presence and the services and economy this represented acted as a magnet for Inuit who had previously used the area as a temporary site for meeting, hunting, fishing and trade, and a permanent community was soon established.

The Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Nunavut Impact Review Board, and Nunavut Planning Commission have their head offices in Cambridge Bay, as well as the Lands and Resources Department of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated

Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated is the legal representative of the Inuit of Nunavut for the purposes of native treaty rights and treaty negotiation and one of the four regional members that make up the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami....
.

During his campaign for the January 2006 Canadian federal election, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Member of the Canadian House of Commons is the List of Prime Ministers of Canada and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada....
 unveiled an Arctic Defence plan which would establish a permanent Arctic training school near Cambridge Bay. In August 2007, Harper announced that the training base would be in Resolute Bay
Resolute Bay

Resolute Bay is a small bay located on the southern side of Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, in the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Nunavut....
, Nunavut.

Cambridge Bay has northern historical significance. It is the final resting place of the Baymaud
Maud (ship)

The Maud was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic. Designed for his intended voyage through the Northern Sea Route, the vessel was specially built at a shipyard in Asker, Norway on the the Oslofjord....
 captained by Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
.

Media


Radio

In addition to a community radio
Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups....
 station, Cambridge Bay is served by two CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is Advertising free and offers both local and national programming....
 transmitters, rebroadcasting the stations from both Iqaluit and Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Inuvik, Northwest Territories

Inuvik, , is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada and is the administrative centre for the Inuvik Region.The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 3,484, but the two previous census counts show wide fluctuations due to economic conditions: 2,894 in Canada 2001 Census and 3,296 in Canada 1996 Census....
.

  • FM 97.7 - CFBI
    CFBI-FM

    CFBI-FM is a Canada radio station, broadcasting at 97.7 FM radio in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The station airs a community radio format with programming in both English language and Innuinaqtun language....
    , community radio
    Community radio

    Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups....
  • FM 101.9 - CFFB-1
    CFFB (AM)

    CFFB is a Canada radio station, broadcasting at 1230 AM radio in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network, and serves as the regional network centre for Nunavut for the CBC North Radio One network....
    , CBC Radio One
    CBC Radio One

    CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is Advertising free and offers both local and national programming....
  • FM 105.1 - CBIN
    CHAK (AM)

    CHAK is a Canada radio station, broadcasting at 860 AM radio in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network known as CBC North....
    , CBC Radio One
    CBC Radio One

    CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is Advertising free and offers both local and national programming....


Television

  • Channel 9 - CBENT
    CFFB-TV

    CFFB is the television call sign for the CBC Television's television transmitter in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Programming on the transmitter is the CBC North service which consists of the regular national CBC Television schedule in Mountain Time, with the addition of the northern news programs CBC Igalaaq in Inuktitut at 6 p.m....
    , CBC North
    CBC North

    CBC North is the name for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio and television service in the Canadian Arctic. Originally known as the CBC Northern Service, its first operations began in 1958 with radio broadcasts including the takeover of CFYK , originally a Royal Canadian Signal Corps-owned, community-run station in Yellowknif...


Internet Services

  • QINIQ
    Qiniq

    QINIQ is a Canada company, which utilizes satellite and wireless communications technology to provide broadband Internet service to remote communities in the Canadian territory of Nunavut....
    , Broadband Internet service provider for Nunavut
  • Polarnet, Internet Service provider for the Kitikmeot region
  • Netkaster, satellite Internet service provided by Northwestel
    Northwestel

    Northwestel Inc. is the incumbent local exchange carrier and long distance carrier in Northern Canada. The company name is a portmanteau, sometimes spelt NorthwesTel, for Northwest Telecommunications....


Climate


Sun below the horizon, polar night
Polar night

The polar night is the night lasting more than 24 hours, usually inside the polar circles. The opposite phenomenon, when the sun stays above the horizon for a long time is called the polar day, or midnight sun....
, from 30 November to 11 January and above the horizon, midnight sun
Midnight sun

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight....
, 19 May to 22 June.

See also

  • Kelvin Ng
    Kelvin Ng

    Kelvin Ng is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature....
  • Bill Lyall
    Bill Lyall

    Bill Lyall Order of Canada of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada is a former territorial level politician. Lyall was elected to the 8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the Northwest Territories general election, 1975....
  • Tanya Tagaq Gillis
    Tanya Tagaq Gillis

    Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an Inuit Inuit throat singing from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut , Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island . After attending school in Cambridge Bay she went, at age 15, to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories to attend high school where she first began to practice throat singing....
  • Cambridge Bay Airport
    Cambridge Bay Airport

    Cambridge Bay Airport is located at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. Its runways are marked with true headings because its location near the North Magnetic Pole makes airplanes' compasses useless....
  • Cambridge Bay Water Aerodrome
    Cambridge Bay Water Aerodrome

    Cambridge Bay Water Aerodrome is located just east of the community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada. Most aircraft land near the docking area operated by Adlair Aviation rather than at the coordinates given....
  • Adlair Aviation
    Adlair Aviation

    Adlair Aviation Ltd. was founded in 1983 as a family owned charter airline in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada. Adlair Aviation was established by one of the north's pilots, Willy Laserich....
  • Chance (muskox)
    Chance (muskox)

    Chance is a muskox that was found abandoned in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut and was cared for by Adlair Aviation. He was only two weeks old when he was found in 2005 and brought to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve....
  • Martin Hartwell
    Martin Hartwell

    Martin Hartwell was a Canadian bush pilot. On November 7, 1972 Hartwell was given a charter to fly from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut with three passengers who had just arrived from Spence Bay; a pregnant Inuk woman, a 14 year old Inuk boy named David Pisurayak Kootook and an attending Canada nurse named Judy Hill....
  • Red Pedersen
    Red Pedersen

    Asger Rye "Red" Pedersen, sometimes Asgar Rye Pederson, is a former territorial level politician. As a young man in 1953, he got a job in the Northern Canada with the Hudson's Bay Company at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Nunavut ....
  • Pelly Mountain (Nunavut)
    Pelly Mountain (Nunavut)

    Pelly Mountain is a mountain located in the remote Canadian North on Victoria Island . It is 16 kilometers north west of the hamlet of Cambridge Bay....
  • Blond Eskimos
    Blond Eskimos

    Blond Eskimos or White Eskimos is the popular name for a group of Eskimos residing on both sides of Coronation Gulf between mainland Canada and Victoria Island , whose first contact with Western world may go back to Sir John Franklin in 1821 and Dease and Simpson in 1838-9....


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