Hall Beach, Nunavut

Hall Beach (Inuktitut: Sanirajak ("the shoreline" [ [http://atlas.gc.ca/sitefrancais/english/learningresources/facts/nunavut_communities/hallbe.html Hall Beach] at the Atlas of Canada] ), Syllabics: ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ) is an Inuit settlement, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, Canada, established in 1957 during the construction of a Distant Early Warning (DEW) site. Currently the settlement is home to a North Warning System radar facility and the Hall Beach Airport.

It is actually fairly close to another Nunavut settlement, Igloolik, about 69 km as the crow flies, a rarity in this vast territory.

As of the 2006 census the population was 654 an increase of 7.4% from the 2001 census. [ [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204011&Geo2=PR&Code2=62&Data=Count&SearchText=Hall%20Beach&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=&GeoCode=6204011 2006 census] ]

ee also

*Hall Beach Airport

References

Further reading

* McAlpine PJ, and NE Simpson. 1976. "Fertility and Other Demographic Aspects of the Canadian Eskimo Communities of Igloolik and Hall Beach". "Human Biology; an International Record of Research". 48, no. 1: 114-38.
* Wenzel, George W. 1997. "Using Harvest Research in Nunavut: An Example from Hall Beach". "Arctic Anthropology". 34, no. 1: 18.