Nanisivik
Nanisivik is a now-abandoned company town which was built in 1975 to support the lead-zinc mining and mineral processing operations for the Nanisivik Mine, in production between 1976 and 2002.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Nanisivik Mine
Locality
Nanisivik Mine was a zinc-lead mine in the company town of Nanisivik, Nunavut, 750 km north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island. It was Canada's first mine in the Arctic.
Nanisivik
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: town in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: human settlement, census subdivision in Canada, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
73.03489° or 73° 2′ 6″ northLongitude
-84.5407° or 84° 32′ 27″ westElevation
130 metres (427 feet)IATA airport code
YSRUnited Nations Location Code
CA NVKOpen location code
C65Q2FM5+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1997292212OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwelling
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Nanisivik” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “納尼西維克”
- Czech: “Nanisivik”
- Dutch: “Nanisivik”
- Esperanto: “Nanisivik”
- French: “Nanisivik, Nunavut”
- French: “Nanisivik”
- German: “Nanisivik”
- Inuktitut: “ᓇᓂᓯᕕᒃ”
- Irish: “Nanisivik”
- Japanese: “ナニシビック”
- Kalaallisut: “Nanisivik”
- Polish: “Nanisivik”
- Portuguese: “Nanisivik”
- Russian: “Нанисивик”
- Spanish: “Nanisivik”
- Swedish: “Nanisivik”
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