Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut

Chesterfield Inlet ( called by the Inuit Igluligaarjuk, " place with a few snow houses" ), territory of Nunavut, one south of the bay of the same name and about 100 kilometers north of Rankin Inlet Situated on the west coast of Hudson Bay village with about 360 inhabitants (of which 93 % Inuit ).

The area around Chesterfield Inlet is inhabited by ancestors of the Inuit for about 4,000 years; even today there are relics from the time of the Thule culture. The first Europeans reached the area in the 18th century in search of the Northwest Passage, but found only more up recently. Mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century were whalers who were inspired by the Inuit hunt caribou, they anheuerten on whaling and drove to trade with them.

Although the Hudson 's Bay Company built in 1911 their first solid trading post in the Arctic. In 1912 by Oblate Fathers an important mission of the Roman Catholic Church with God's house, Hospital and School of Mission, imposing buildings, Chesterfield Inlet reputation " Vatican of the north" brought in the. 1951, the first public school was established and by Catholic nuns, the Grey Nuns looked after, (now Tangmavik hotel). Until the mid- 1950s Chesterfield Inlet was that in 1980 he received the status of "Hamlet" ( community ), the most important center north of Churchill. Nevertheless, the settlement remained to this day next to Whale Cove, the smallest in the Kivalliq District; Rankin Inlet with its nickel mine has outstripped him.