Whale Cove, Nunavut

Whale Cove ( ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ, Tikirarjuaq in Inuktitut ) is a settlement in Canada's Nunavut Kivalliq region between Arviat and Rankin Inlet on the western Hudson Bay coast. The name ( German " Whale Bay " ) refers to the here in the summer tummelnden large numbers of belugas. Your Inuktitut name is Tikirarjuak, " elongated headland ". With about 350 inhabitants (of which 97 % Inuit ) it is one of the smaller Inuit communities. A regional air connection with Arviat.

At the beginning of the 17th century, first came Thomas Button and a little later Luke Foxe in search of the Northwest Passage to this stretch of coast. About a hundred years later they were followed by the Hudson's Bay Company and built several kilometers from the present Whale Cove the long since discontinued trading post Tavani. The settlement Whale Cove itself originated during a famine of the Inuit in the winter 1957/1958, as the vital caribou stayed away. The government introduced at the time the surviving domestic and coastal Inuit from their situated in the Barren Lands hunting areas here and in Arviat and Baker Lake together. To this day, the traditional lifestyle of the Inuit has been well preserved.