Country Canada Local time Wednesday 8:15 PM | Highest elevation 313 m (1,027 ft) Population 0 (2006) | |
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Weather -22°C, Wind S at 11 km/h, 60% Humidity | ||
Kivitoo, Nunavut is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, approximately 31 mi (50 km) to the south, in the 1950s.
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Map of Kivitoo, NU, Canada
History
In the early 20th century, the Sabellum Trading Company established a post at Kivitoo to service the whalers who would anchor there to flense carcasses. The post was abandoned in 1926.
Kivitoo (qivittu) (FOX-D) is also a former Distant Early Warning Line and is currently a North Warning System site. Because of a nearby small coastal plain, a short airstrip was built during early operation of FOX-D.
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Kivitoo Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA