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Kivitoo
Abandoned settlement in Nunavut, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kivitoo is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station[3] on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, approximately 50 km (31 mi) to the south, in 1963.[4] Kivitoo Memorial Park remains at the southern shore of the hamlet.[5][failed verification]
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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.[6]
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.[3]
The residents of Kivitoo were evacuated to Qikiqtarjuaq in 1963, purportedly for their safety, after three residents of the community were killed in a collapse of the ice under their igloos.[7] However, the town was never resettled afterward, as the remaining structures in the community had been demolished by authorities by the time residents tried to return.[7]
The evacuation and destruction of Kivitoo is the subject of Zacharias Kunuk's 2018 documentary film Kivitoo: What They Thought of Us.[7]
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