Ulukhaktok

Ulukhaktok, traditional Ulukhaqtuuq ( Innuinaqtun ) or Uluqsaqtuuq ( Inuktitut ) is written and published by 1 April 2006 Holman, is a small town on the west coast of Victoria and Iceland belongs to the Inuvik region of the Canadian Northwest Territories. The 400 inhabitants are about 94 % Inuvialuit or Inuit. As in other small settlements the inhabitants originally lived from hunting, trapping and fishing, but has in recent decades increasingly less graphic art for the main source of income. In essence, the Kangiryuarmiut dialect of Innuinaqtun and English are spoken here.

Your earliest traces of settlement, when the family of a man named Natkusiak (ca. 1885-1947 ) in 1937 settled here. Two years later a branch of the Hudson 's Bay Company from the Walker Bay was moved to here, and the same year was a Roman Catholic mission station. Gradually people moved from the surrounding area here. Family bonds are made to the settlements Kugluktuk and Gjoa Haven, and to settlements in the Mackenzie River Delta and the Beaufort Sea; individual families are also descendants of the Danish merchant Christian Klengenberg.

The traditional name Ulukhaqtuuq means " place where ulu parts are found ", and features the great cliff from which the inhabitants of the region brought their raw slate and copper to produce the Ulu (woman diameter). As a result, the people living here were called Ulukhaqtuumiut ( people of Ulukhaqtuuq ), a neologism, since before the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Branch and the Roman Catholic mission station here no one lived permanently, but only people came with Ulu to stock material.

Today it is the most northerly golf course in the world, will take place on the international golf tournament every summer called the "Billy Joss Open Celebrity Golf Tournament".

From growing tourist interest are the ways to fish arctic and American lake trout in the area. In addition, Holman is driven by cruise ships in the Arctic summer on the route of the Northwest Passage.

Well-known artists of the settlement Ulukhaktok include Helen Kalvak (1901-1984) and Elsie Klengenberg ( b. 1946 ), whose graphic works are sought after internationally.

Ulukhaktok is served by the airlines Aklak Air from Inuvik and Yellowknife First Air from.