Okak

Okak is a former community located on Okak Bay in northern . It was founded in 1776 by Jens Haven, a missionary of the Moravian Church. In 1918, Moravian missionaries brought an outbreak of Spanish influenza that devastated Okak, killing 204 out of a population of 263.
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  • Village
  • …lies at an elevation of 64 metres (210 feet)
  • Description: human settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Also known as
    “Okak, Newfoundland and Labrador”
    “Okkak”

Okak

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Latitude
57.56414° or 57° 33′ 51″ north
Longitude
-61.98275° or 61° 58′ 58″ west
Open location code
979WH278+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1237641687
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6092879
Wiki­data ID
Q7081733

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In Other Languages

From Czech to Turkish—“Okak” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Okak”
  • Dutch: “Okak, Newfoundland and Labrador”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكاك”
  • French: “Okak”
  • German: “Okak”
  • Portuguese: “Okak”
  • Russian: “Окак”
  • Slovak: “Okak”
  • Turkish: “Okak”

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