Sanikiluaq
Sanikiluaq is a municipality and Inuit community located on the north coast of Flaherty Island in Hudson Bay, on the Belcher Islands. Despite being geographically much closer to the shores of Ontario and Quebec, the community and the Belcher Islands lie within the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Paatsaali School and Sanikiluaq Airport.
Paatsaali School
School building
Paatsaali School is a high school in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada. Paatsaali School opened in 2011 and has 177 students. Next door to the school is Nuiyak School, an elementary school with 126 students from kindergarten to grade six.
Sanikiluaq Airport
Aerodrome
Sanikiluaq Airport is located at Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut. It is one of the few airports in Nunavut that uses magnetic headings for the runway rather than true headings.
Sanikiluaq
- Type: Town with 800 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
56.54216° or 56° 32′ 32″ northLongitude
-79.22592° or 79° 13′ 33″ westPopulation
800Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
YSKUnited Nations Location Code
CA YSKOpen location code
9782GQRF+VJOpenStreetMap ID
node 107363077OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6140995Wikidata ID
Q939231
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Sanikiluaq” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sanikiluaq”
- Catalan: “Sanikiluaq”
- Cebuano: “Sanikiluaq”
- Chinese: “萨尼基卢阿克”
- Dutch: “Sanikiluaq”
- Finnish: “Sanikiluaq”
- French: “Sanikiluaq”
- German: “Sanikiluaq”
- Greek: “Σανικιλουάκ”
- Inuktitut: “ᓴᓂᑭᓗᐊᖅ”
- Italian: “Sanikiluaq”
- Japanese: “サニキルーアク”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sanikiluaq”
- Polish: “Sanikiluaq”
- Portuguese: “Sanikiluaq”
- Russian: “Саникилуак”
- Spanish: “Sanikiluaq”
- Swedish: “Sanikiluaq”
- Ukrainian: “Санікілуак”
- “Sanikiluaq”
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