Northern Canada
Nunavut
Kitikmeot Region

Gjoa Haven

Gjoa Haven is a famous natural harbour 250 km above the Arctic Circle, with its adjacent hamlet, on the southeast coast of King William Island, in .
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  • Type: Town with 900 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
  • Also known as: “Ursuqtuuq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gjoa Haven Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: CambridgeBayWeather, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located 1.5 nautical miles northeast of Gjoa Haven, , Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. The is a single storey building and located next to several trailers.

Gjoa Haven

Latitude
68.628° or 68° 37′ 41″ north
Longitude
-95.8684° or 95° 52′ 6″ west
Population
900
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
YHK
United Nations Location Code
CA YHK
Open location code
96W6J4HJ+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107355530
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5961560
Wiki­data ID
Q719585
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Gjoa Haven” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Arabic: “غجوا هافن”
  • Basque: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Cebuano: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Chinese: “約阿港”
  • Chinese: “约阿港”
  • Czech: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Dutch: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قرية جوا هافن”
  • Finnish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • French: “Gjoa Haven”
  • French: “Uqsuqtuuq”
  • German: “Gjoa Haven”
  • German: “Uqsuqtuuq”
  • German: “Ursuqtuuq”
  • Hebrew: “אוקסוקטוק”
  • Inuktitut: “Uqsuqtuuq”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ”
  • Irish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Italian: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Japanese: “グジョーア・ヘブン”
  • Japanese: “ジョア・ヘイヴン”
  • Japanese: “ジョアヘブン”
  • Latvian: “Joaheivena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ursuqtuuq”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Norwegian: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Persian: “جو هیون”
  • Persian: “جیجوی هیون”
  • Polish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Portuguese: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Russian: “Йоа-Хейвен”
  • Spanish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Swedish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Tatar: “Йоа-Һейвен”
  • Turkish: “Gjoa Haven”
  • Turkish: “Uqsuqtuuq”
  • Ukrainian: “Йоа-Гейвен”
  • Ukrainian: “Йоа-Хейвен”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gjoa Haven”. Photo: Tristan in Ottawa, CC BY-SA 2.0.