Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut

Bathurst Inlet - called by the Inuit after a nearby mountain Qingguak (or Kingoak ), "nose" - is one of just 30 inhabitants (only Inuit, the " Qingguamiut " call themselves ) and, apart from Umingmaktuk, the smallest settlement of Nunavut.

It is surrounded by Barren Lands (literally " barren land " ), rolling tundra landscape with Esker relics from the last ice age and gorge overflowing rivers - Examples: Burnside River with Burnside Falls and Hood River with Wilberforce Falls - at the mouth of Burnside Inlet on southwest end of Bathurst Inlet. The settlement of the name -giving Bathurst Inlet is a fjord that extends north to Coronation Gulf ( Arctic Ocean). Accessible from the settlement is only about charter flight from Yellowknife.

The first European explorers of Sir John Franklin reached the area in August 1821. The first permanent resident there non- Inuit arrived in 1929 and set up camp for a mineral exploration. A little later established the Hudson 's Bay Company trading post. Around 1945 a Roman Catholic mission station was established. In the 1950s, trading posts and mission, however, were abandoned. Mid-1960s, then acquired a former police officer and his wife ( Glenn and Trish Warner ) together with two families Qingguamiut the area and converted the building together with the church in a lodge for ecotourism ( " naturalist - Lodge " ) around.