Cruises from Ulukhaktok
Ulukhaktok (aka Ulukhaqtuuq, Holman) lies 460km north of the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The small hamlet has a population of around 500. Hunting, trapping, and fishing are major sources of income. The first Ulukhaktok-area trading post was established in 1923.
Read moreThe area is inhabited, among various indigenous groups, by the Copper Inuit, so-named as they used and relied on native (pure) copper ingots gathered in the region to make cutting knives (ulus). The large bluff that overlooks Ulukhaktok was the source that provided both slate and copper used to make ulus and give the community its name.
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