Iqaluit is the capital and the largest community of the Canadian territory of Nunavut located on the south coast of Baffin Island ; its name means in Inuktitut « fishes ». Prior to 1987 the community was named Frobisher Bay when reverting to its original Inuktitut name. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called Iqalummiut (singular : [...]

The Territory of Nunavut was formerly part of the Northwest Territories, until April 1, 1999, when the Government of Nunavut was officially inaugurated. Nunavut, « our land, our territory » in Inuktitut, covers about 1.9 million km² of land where about 30,000 Nunavummiut live and 161,000 km² of water. About 70 % of people speak [...]

Panniqtuuq is an Inuit Hamlet in Nunavut, located on east Baffin Island on the shore of the Panniqtuuq fjord. 1325 Panniqtuurmiut (95% are Inuit) live in this community (Statistic Canada 2006) which  its name means in Isnuktitut : “rich in bull caribous”. Panniqtuuq is also called Pang and Pangnirtung in English.
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Puvirnituq is one of the 15 Inuit communities in Nunavik in the Northern Quebec, well known by non Inuit people as Povungnituk or POV; about 1400 people live there.
In Inuktitut, « puvirnituq » means « it smells rotten meat ». Two explanations are commonly given for the name of this village, according to Taamusi [...]