Igloolik

The settlement Iglulik ( "place of snow houses ."; Engl Igloolik ) is a municipality (English " Hamlet ") in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is situated on the mainland south of the Fury and Hecla Strait, offshore island of the same in a traditional, from Inuit Amittuq (literally: " it's tight " ) region called the Foxe Basin.

The island is populated by Inuit and their ancestors for more than 2000 years, and the resort is now around 1,600 inhabitants (of which 94 % Inuit ) is quite large for arctic conditions. Close family ties are made to the residents of Arctic Bay.

The first Europeans who landed here, the crews of the two ships Fury and Hecla, which wintered under the command of William Edward Parry in search of the Northwest Passage in 1822 on the small island apply. Around 1930, established a Roman Catholic mission and towards the end of the 1930s, a post of the Hudson's Bay Company. 1950 architecturally notable Catholic church was built of stone; Services are held for a long time but in a new wooden church instead, because the stone church was not heated and was too small. An Anglican mission was established until 1959., A school, a health center and a police station were set up to the mid-1960s. As can be seen from these annual figures, the area fell to Iglulik in comparison with other Inuit settlements until late in the influence of the Euro Canadian culture. Iglulik has therefore retained essential elements of its tradition despite growth and penetration of influences of modernity and rooted still relatively low in the traditional Inuit culture.

The place is now used as a starting point for sledding and boating; Scheduled flight ( First Air Ltd. ) Consists of Iqaluit, capital of Nunavut. If in the early summer, the running between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula Fury and Hecla Strait is still frozen and wait Bowhead whales on their migration through the Hudson and Fox Street or the Foxe Basin to get through north to Lancaster Sound reign in the northeast of Iglulik ideal conditions to observe these huge marine mammals of the ice edge from. At the same time there are about eighty kilometers to the south-east in the area of Manning islands hundreds of Atlantic walruses in small groups on drifting ice floes and store after the melting of the ice mass on the islands.

International interest as Inuit Film Center was Iglulik Isuma by the Institute after the movie filmed here Atanarjuat ( German: The Fast Runner ) was awarded the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

From Amittuq region also has a number of known Inuit artists emerged, so among other Airut Luke ( b. 1942 ), Bart Hanna (* 1948) and living in Yellowknife Germaine Arnaktauyok (* 1946).