Arviat
Arviat is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. Arviat is derived from the Inuktitut word arviq meaning "Bowhead whale".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,060 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Eskimo Point”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arviat Airport.
Arviat Airport
Aerodrome
Arviat Airport is located at Arviat, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. Local taxis provide service between the hamlet and the airport for $7.
Arviat
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.1073° or 61° 6′ 26″ northLongitude
-94.0564° or 94° 3′ 23″ westPopulation
2,060Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)IATA airport code
YEKUnited Nations Location Code
CA YEKOpen location code
96H74W4V+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 107351425OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5887448Wikidata ID
Q643346
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Arviat” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Arviat”
- Arabic: “أرفيات”
- Bengali: “আরভিয়াট”
- Bulgarian: “Арвиат”
- Catalan: “Arviat”
- Catalan: “Eskimo Point”
- Cebuano: “Arviat”
- Chinese: “亚怀亚特”
- Chinese: “亞懷亞特”
- Chinese: “阿维亚特”
- Danish: “Arviat”
- Dutch: “Arviat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آرفيات”
- Finnish: “Arviat”
- Finnish: “Eskimo Point”
- French: “Arviat”
- French: “Eskimo Point”
- Galician: “Arviat”
- Galician: “Eskimo Point”
- German: “Arviat”
- German: “Eskimo Point”
- Greek: “Άρβιατ”
- Gujarati: “અરવિઆટ”
- Hindi: “अरवियत”
- Indonesian: “Arviat”
- Inuktitut: “ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ”
- Italian: “Arviat”
- Italian: “Eskimo Point”
- Japanese: “アルヴィアト”
- Japanese: “アルビアト”
- Kannada: “ಆರ್ವಿಯಟ್”
- Korean: “아리밧”
- Latvian: “Arviata”
- Lithuanian: “Arvijatas”
- Malay: “Arviat”
- Marathi: “अरविएट”
- Nhengatu: “Arviat”
- Nhengatu: “Arwiati”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arviat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arviat”
- Norwegian: “Arviat”
- Persian: “آرویات”
- Polish: “Arviat”
- Portuguese: “Arviat”
- Russian: “Арвиат”
- Sinhala: “ආවියට්”
- Spanish: “Arviat”
- Swedish: “Arviat”
- Tamil: “அர்வியாட்”
- Telugu: “అర్వియట్”
- Thai: “อาร์เวียต”
- Turkish: “Arviat”
- Turkish: “Eskimo Point”
- Ukrainian: “Арвіат”
- Ukrainian: “Ескімо-Пойнт”
- Urdu: “ارویات”
- Vietnamese: “Arviat”
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