Umingmaktok
Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada
Umingmaktok (Inuinnaqtun: Umingmaktuuq "like a musk ox", or "he or she caught a muskox") is a ghost town on Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The community was previously known as Bay Chimo.
The area around Umingmaktuuq is said to be rich in wildlife such as the Arctic fox, fur seals, barren-ground caribou, Arctic char and muskox.
With less than two dozen residents, Umingmaktuuq was one of the smallest permanent non-military communities in Nunavut. At one time, the community had a school that provided education up to Grade 6. Later, any students were flown to Cambridge Bay and returned to the community only for the summer and Christmas.
The community had no electricity other than that provided by portable generators, and communication with the outside world was by satellite phone. The only access to the community was by chartered aircraft, and the landing strip divided Umingmaktuuq in half. On one side was the old Hudson's Bay Company buildings and the Co-op store, and on the other was the main residential area.
History
In 1920, Christian Klengenberg over-wintered in Bathurst Inlet to trap fox for the fur trade.
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