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".
- Type: Town with 2,060 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Eskimo Point”, “Ескімо-Пойнт”, “ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ Arviat”, and “アルヴィアト”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Arviat Airport.
Arviat Airport
Aerodrome
Arviat Airport is located at Arviat, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut.
Arviat
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
61.1073° or 61° 6′ 26″ north
Longitude
-94.0564° or 94° 3′ 23″ west
Population
2,060
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
YEK
UN/LOCODE
CA YEK
Open location code
96H74W4V+WC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- 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”
- French: “Arviat”
- Galician: “Arviat”
- German: “Arviat”
- Greek: “Άρβιατ”
- Gujarati: “અરવિઆટ”
- Hindi: “अरवियत”
- Indonesian: “Arviat”
- Inuktitut: “ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ”
- Italian: “Arviat”
- Japanese: “アルビアト”
- Kannada: “ಆರ್ವಿಯಟ್”
- Korean: “아리밧”
- Latvian: “Arviata”
- Lithuanian: “Arvijatas”
- Malay: “Arviat”
- Marathi: “अरविएट”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Арвіат”
- Urdu: “ارویات”
- Vietnamese: “Arviat”
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Places to explore: Nuvuk and Qikiqtaarjuk.
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