capital of Nunavut, Canada, in the E part
Iqaluit
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Iqaluit
The capital and largest community of Nunavut, Canada, on Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay. The site of an airbase built by the United States in World War II, it became the capital of Nunavut in 2001.x
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Origin
From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ (iqaluit, “place of fish”), plural of ᐃᖃᓗᒃ (iqaluk, “fish”).
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