Whale Cove
Whale Cove, is a hamlet in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada, on the western shore of Hudson Bay. It is located 74 km south southwest of Rankin Inlet and 145 km northeast of Arviat.
- Type: Town with 350 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Whale Cove, Nunavut” and “ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ Whale Cove”
Whale Cove
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
62.17342° or 62° 10′ 24″ north
Longitude
-92.58637° or 92° 35′ 11″ west
Population
350
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
YXN
United Nations Location Code
CA YXN
Open location code
96J95CF7+9F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Whale Cove” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Whale Cove”
- Arabic: “ويل كوف”
- Catalan: “Whale Cove”
- Cebuano: “Whale Cove”
- Chinese: “鯨灣”
- Dutch: “Whale Cove”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويل كوف”
- Finnish: “Whale Cove”
- French: “Whale Cove”
- German: “Whale Cove”
- Inuktitut: “ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ”
- Italian: “Whale Cove”
- Japanese: “ホエールコーブ”
- Persian: “ویل کوو”
- Polish: “Whale Cove”
- Portuguese: “Whale Cove”
- Russian: “Уэйл-Коув”
- Spanish: “Whale Cove”
- Swedish: “Whale Cove”
- Ukrainian: “Вейл-Ков”
- “Whale Cove”
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