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Health | A self-governing territory formed from the central and eastern portions of the Northwest Territories. It was officially established April 1, 1999. The capital is Iqaluit. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| Motto: Nunavut Sanginivut (Nunavut our strength / Our land our strength) | |||||
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| Capital | Iqaluit | ||||
| Area - Total - % fresh water | 1st largest (1st lgst terr.) 2 093 190 km² 7.5% | ||||
| Population
- Total (2001) - Density | Ranked 13th
28 200 0.01/km² | ||||
| Admittance into Confederation
- Date - Order |
Split off from NWT 1999 13 | ||||
| Time zones | UTC -4,-5,-6,-7 *Southampton Island does not observe DST |
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| Postal information
Postal abbreviation Postal code prefix | NU (temporarily NT) X |
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| ISO 3166-2 | CA-NU | ||||
| Parliamentary representation House seats Senate seats |
1 1 | ||||
| Premier | Paul Okalik | ||||
| Commissioner | Peter T. Irniq | ||||
| Government of Nunavut | |||||
Nunavut is the newest and largest of the provinces and territories of Canada: it was split off officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established as early as 1993. It is now a separate territory.
The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east. Other major communities include Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Nunavut also comprises Ellesmere Island in the north and the east of Victoria Island in the west. Nunavut is the least populated and also the largest of the provinces and territorities of Canada: a population of only about 28,000 (Nunavumiut, sg. Nunavumiuq) spread over an area the size of Western Europe. If Nunavut were a country it would be the least densely populated in the world: Greenland is that, and Nunavut has almost the same area and half the population.
Nunavut means our land in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.
The recorded history of Nunavut began in 1576. Martin Frobisher, while leading an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, thought he had discovered gold ore in what is now known as Frobisher Bay on the coast of Baffin Island. The ore turned out to be worthless, but Frobisher made the first recorded European contact with the Inuit. The contact was hostile, with Frobisher capturing four Inuit people and bringing them back to England, where they quickly perished.
Other explorers in search of the elusive Northwest Passage followed in the 17th century, including Henry Hudson, William Baffin and Robert Bylot.
(and there were quite a few more after that. More needs to be said about various explorers and colonial history in Nunavut. But for now, let's make a jump into recent history)
In 1976, negotiations for a land claim agreement and the new territory between the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the federal government began. In April 1982, a majority of Northwest Territories residents voted in favour of a division, and the federal government gave a conditional agreement seven months later. A land claims agreement was reached in September, 1992 and ratified by nearly 85% of the voters in Nunavut. In June 1993 the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act were passed by the Canadian Parliament, and the transition was completed on April 1, 1999.
The creation of Nunavut created Canada's only "four corners," at the intersection of the boundaries of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, at 60°00' north, 102°00' west, on the southern shore of Kasba Lake. This is not the tourist spot it might be, as it is extremely remote and inaccessible.
See List of communities in Nunavut.
Nunavut's head of state and the Queen's representative is a commissioner appointed by the federal government. As in the other territories, the commissioner's role is symbolic. The head of government is the premier. The members of the unicameral legislative assembly are elected individually; there are no parties and the legislature is consensus-based.
History
The region now known as Nunavut has supported a continuous population for approximately 4000 years. Most historians also identify the coast of Baffin Island with the Helluland described in Norse sagas, so it is possible that the inhabitants of the region had occasional contact with Norse sailors. For more information on the earliest inhabitants and explorers of Nunavut, see Paleoeskimo, Neoeskimo and Helluland.People
Nunavut has a population of approximately 27,000, of whom around 85% are native peoples.Geography
The territory covers approximately 1.9 million square kilometers of land and water including part of the mainland, most of the Arctic Islands, and all of the islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay, and Ungava Bay (including the Belcher Islands) which were formerly attached to the Northwest Territories. 
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nunavut."
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Economic History | Canada | Stretching across the north are the territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, occupying roughly one-third of Canada's land mass, but home to only about 100,000 people. (references) |
Canada | Special opportunities exist in Nunavut, the newest territory, created on April 1, 1999. This territory is still in the process of setting up its own government and seeks management expertise in establishing systems to administer social services, education, health and other related services. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | In the country's three territories, aboriginals constitute 20 percent of Yukon, 62 percent of Northwest Territories, and 84 percent of Nunavut. (references) |
Political Economy | Canada | Provincial or Territorial elections were held in British Columbia in May 2001, which resulted in victory for the Liberal Party; in Alberta in March 2001 (Progressive Conservatives won); in Quebec in November 1998 (Parti Quebecois); in Newfoundland and Labrador (Liberals) and in Nunavut in February 1999; in Ontario (Progressive Conservatives) and in New Brunswick (Progressive Conservatives) in June 1999; in Nova Scotia in July 1999 (Progressive Conservatives); in Saskatchewan (New Democratic Party) and in Manitoba (New Democratic Party) in September 1999; in Northwest Territories in December 1999; and in Prince Edward Island (Progressive Conservatives) and in Yukon (Liberals) in April 2000. (references) |
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| "NUNAVUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "NUNAVUT" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-n-t-u-u-v" | |
-2 letters: vaunt. | |
-3 letters: aunt, tuna, unau, vatu. | |
-4 letters: ant, nan, nun, nut, tan, tau, tav, tun, uta, van, vat, vau. | |
-5 letters: an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-n-t-u-u-v" | |
+4 letters: nuncupative, outvaunting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 55 4E 41 56 55 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- -. .- ...- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010101 01001110 01000001 01010110 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N U N A V U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0055 004E 0041 0056 0055 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48554835565554 |
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