Puvirnituq
Puvirnituq, also known by its previously official name of Povungnituk, is a northern village in Nunavik, on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada.Photo: Raphael.jc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Big Island.
Big Island
Island
Big Island is a small, uninhabited island located in Hudson Bay near the community of Puvirnituq, Quebec, Canada. The island, one of three islands named "Big Island" in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, is part of the Arctic Archipelago.
Puvirnituq
- Type: Town with 1,690 residents
- Description: northern village in Quebec, Canada
- Categories: northern village and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
60.03939° or 60° 2′ 22″ northLongitude
-77.27092° or 77° 16′ 15″ westPopulation
1,690Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)IATA airport code
YPXOpen location code
97G42PQH+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 107350814OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Puvirnituq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوفيرنيتوك”
- Atikamekw: “Puvirnituq”
- Cebuano: “Puvirnituq”
- Chinese: “普维尔尼图克”
- Cree: “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒃ”
- Dutch: “Puvirnituq”
- French: “Povungnituk”
- French: “Puvirnituk”
- French: “Puvirnituq”
- Galician: “Puvirnituq”
- Galician: “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ”
- German: “Povungnituq”
- German: “Puvirnituq”
- Inuktitut: “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ”
- Irish: “Puvirnituq”
- Italian: “Puvirnituq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puvirnituq”
- Polish: “Puvirnituq”
- Portuguese: “Puvirnituq”
- Russian: “Пувирнитук”
- Spanish: “Povungnituk”
- Spanish: “Puvirnituq”
- Swedish: “Puvirnituq”
- Turkish: “Puvirnituq”
- Ukrainian: “Повунгнітук”
- Ukrainian: “Повунґнітук”
- Ukrainian: “Пувірнітук”
- “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ”
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