Canada
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Nunavut

Promise Island

Promise Island is located near the western shore of . It is barely a square kilometre in area and rises 300 ft in elevation on its northern side.
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Photo: Cbaer, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chesterfield Inlet.

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is a hamlet located on the western shore of , Kivalliq Region, in , Canada, at the mouth of . Igluligaarjuk is the Inuktitut word for "place with few houses", it is the oldest community in Nunavut. is situated 9 km west of Promise Island.

Promise Island

Latitude
63.36173° or 63° 21′ 42″ north
Longitude
-90.53132° or 90° 31′ 53″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
96MF9F69+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 21941885
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
6113645
Wiki­data ID
Q7249772
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Promise Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Promise Island (pulo sa Nunavut)”
  • Cebuano: “Promise Island”
  • Dutch: “Promise Island”
  • French: “Promise Island (Nunavut)”
  • Romanian: “Promise Island”
  • Swedish: “Promise Island, Nunavut”
  • Swedish: “Promise Island”
  • Turkish: “Promise Adası”
  • Turkish: “Promise Island”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Promise Island”. Photo: Cbaer, Public domain.