Repulse Bay, Nunavut

Repulse Bay in Nunavut, Kivalliq Region, is a location in the bay on the northwest corner of Hudson Bay on the stem of the Melville Peninsula village with about 650 inhabitants (of which 95 % Inuit ). Their traditional Inuktitut name is Naujaat, " place where gulls nest ".

The area around Repulse Bay has for centuries Inuit settlement area, many of which Inuksuit (plural of Inuksuk, " a man like " ) testify. There are signs, at which the oriented between Repulse Bay and Iglulik or Kugaaruk travelers.

Christopher Middleton reached in 1742 the first European to the bay. From 1860 whalers frequently turned up until the 1914 whaling came to an end. The Hudson 's Bay Company established a permanent trading post in 1919, since flourished here trade with fox skins until the 1950s. In the 1930s, the first Roman Catholic and Anglican missionaries appeared. As early as the 1940s began, the Inuit of Repulse Bay with the figures of stone and walrus ivory sculptures.

Accessible Repulse Bay is with regional airlines from Rankin Inlet.