Cape Dorset
Kinngait, known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,440 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Kinngait”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Dorset Airport.
Cape Dorset Airport
Aerodrome
Kinngait Airport is located at Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut. Turbo-prop aircraft are used and handled at this airport due to the runway surface and length.
Cape Dorset
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.23228° or 64° 13′ 56″ northLongitude
-76.54322° or 76° 32′ 36″ westPopulation
1,440IATA airport code
YTEUnited Nations Location Code
CA CDOOpen location code
97P56FJ4+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 7254570283OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Cape Dorset” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cape Dorset”
- Arabic: “كيب دورست”
- Arabic: “كينجيت”
- Armenian: “Քեյփ-Դորսետ”
- Bengali: “কেপ ডরসেট”
- Catalan: “Cape Dorset”
- Cebuano: “Cape Dorset”
- Chinese: “金盖特”
- Chinese: “開普多塞特”
- Danish: “Cape Dorset”
- Dutch: “Cape Dorset”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيب دورست”
- Estonian: “Cape Dorset”
- Finnish: “Cape Dorset”
- French: “Cape Dorset”
- French: “Kinngait”
- Galician: “Cape Dorset”
- Galician: “Kinngait”
- Galician: “ᑭᙵᐃᑦ”
- German: “Cape Dorset”
- German: “Kinngait”
- German: “Sikusiilaq”
- Greek: “Κέιπ Ντόρσετ”
- Gujarati: “કેપ ડોર્સેટ”
- Hindi: “केप डोरसेट”
- Indonesian: “Cape Dorset”
- Inuktitut: “ᑭᙵᐃᑦ”
- Irish: “Kinngait”
- Italian: “Cape Dorset”
- Italian: “Kinngait”
- Japanese: “キンガイト”
- Japanese: “ケープドーセット”
- Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ಡೋರ್ಸೆಟ್”
- Korean: “카페 도르셋”
- Latvian: “Keipdorseta”
- Lithuanian: “Keip Dorsetas”
- Malay: “Cape Dorset”
- Marathi: “केप डॉर्सेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Dorset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinngait”
- Persian: “کیپ دورست”
- Polish: “Cape Dorset”
- Polish: “Kinngait”
- Polish: “Sikusiilaq”
- Portuguese: “Cape Dorset”
- Russian: “Кейп-Дорсет”
- Sinhala: “කේප් ඩොර්සෙට්”
- Spanish: “Cabo Dorset”
- Swedish: “Cape Dorset”
- Swedish: “Kinngait”
- Tamil: “கேப் டோர்செட்”
- Telugu: “కేప్ డోర్సెట్”
- Thai: “เคป ดอร์เซต”
- Turkish: “Cape Dorset”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Дорсет”
- Ukrainian: “Кіннгаіт”
- Urdu: “کیپ ڈورسٹ، نُناوُت”
- Vietnamese: “Cape Dorset”
- Welsh: “Kinngait”
- “ᑭᙵᐃᑦ”
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