Iqaluit

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Iqaluit (ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ in Inuktitut syllabics; formerly, Frobisher Bay) is the capital and largest settlement of the Canadian province of Nunavut, and is located on a south-eastern inlet of Baffin Island. Population 5,300.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By air 3 Get around 4 See 4.1 Landmarks 4.2 Museums and Galleries 5 Do 6 Eat 7 Sleep 8 Cope 9 External links

Understand

Iqaluit started life as the site of an American Air Force base in 1942.

Get in

Iqaluit is generally accessible only by air and - under the right ice conditions - by sea.

By air

• Canadian North [1] offers scheduled jet aircraft flights to / from Iqaluit and Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa.

Get around

See

Landmarks

• St Jude's Anglican Cathedral - a white, domed and spired church building designed to resemble an igloo, the interior was recently (November 2005) destroyed by fire and therefore probably not able to be visited

Museums and Galleries

• the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum - houses a large collection of Inuit and Arctic artefacts

Do

Eat

Sleep

Cope

External links

• Iqaluit - official municipal web site
• Nunavut Tourism - official tourism web site

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