Kangiqsujuaq
Kangiqsujuaq is a small village of 750 in Nunavik, Quebec. There is nothing too special about this village, except that it is the closest point of civilization to Qajartalik in Qikertaaluk Island, home to a petroglyph site consisting of over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lkovac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Lkovac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport.
Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport
Aerodrome
Kangiqsujuaq Airport is located 0.7 nautical miles southeast of Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec, Canada.
Kangiqsujuaq
- Type: Town with 552 residents
- Description: northern village in Nunavik, Canada
- Categories: northern village and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
61.602° or 61° 36′ 7″ northLongitude
-71.95° or 71° 56′ 60″ westPopulation
552Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)IATA airport code
YWBUnited Nations Location Code
CA YWBOpen location code
97HCJ322+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 107350928OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5989205Wikidata ID
Q991497
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kangiqsujuaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانجيكسوجواك”
- Atikamekw: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Basque: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Cebuano: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Cree: “ᑲᓐᒋᒃᓱᔪᐊᒃ”
- Dutch: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- French: “Baie Wakeham”
- French: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- French: “Kangirsujuaq”
- French: “Wakeham Bay”
- Galician: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- German: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- German: “Wakeham Bay”
- Inuktitut: “ᑲᖏᖅᓱᔪᐊᖅ”
- Irish: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Italian: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Polish: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Portuguese: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Spanish: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Spanish: “Wakeham Bay”
- Swedish: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Turkish: “Kangiqsujuaq”
- Ukrainian: “Канґіксуджуак”
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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 “Kangiqsujuaq”. Photo: Lkovac, CC BY-SA 3.0.