Inuksuk Point

Coordinates: 64°34′18.7″N 078°10′16.68″W / 64.571861°N 78.1713000°W / 64.571861; -78.1713000 (Inuksuk Point)

Inuksuk Point

Inuksuit at the Inuksuk Point
Type inuksuit
Location Nunavut, Canada
Nearest city Cape Dorset

Inuksuk Point (Enukso Point, Inuksugalait) is small peninsula on Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.

This location is renowned due to a group of more than 100 inuksuit - stone cairns built by indigenous people.[1] The site has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1969.[2]

References

  1. Scott Heyes. Protecting the authenticity and integrity of inuksuit within the arctic milieu, Études/Inuit/Studies, Volume 26, numéro 2, 2002, p. 133-156, accessed on 19 Feb 2010
  2. Inuksuk. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
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