Kangiqtugaapik

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Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Infobox body of water tracking".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Kangiqtugaapik (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ[1]) formerly Clyde Inlet[2] is a body of water in eastern Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. Its mouth opens into the Davis Strait from the west.

The Inuit community of Clyde River is located on the inlet's Patricia Bay. The community is a popular launching-off point for remote big wall climbing on the east coast of Baffin. The nearby fiords are home to many granite walls with some established routes and plenty of space for new first ascents.[3]

Geography

At one time, before its deglaciation, Kangiqtugaapik was a Script error: No such module "convert". long fjord.[4]

The Kangiqtugaapik system includes three main geographic features, the Script error: No such module "convert". long Patricia Bay[5] close to the northern side of the entrance, where the inhabited settlement of Clyde River is located, as well as two long fjords branching roughly about Script error: No such module "convert". from the mouth of the bay with their heads in the southwest.

Kangiqtugaapik

Kangiqtugaapik, is the northern branch. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long and has the Clyde River at its head,[6]

Inugsuin Fiord

The Inugsuin Fiord[7] in the south is Template:Cvt long and has a number of unnamed islands at its mouth.[8] Tasiujaq is a small bay that flows into the fiord.[9]

See also

References

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