- Hall Beach, Nunavut
Hall Beach (
Inuktitut : Sanirajak ("the shoreline" [ [http://atlas.gc.ca/sitefrancais/english/learningresources/facts/nunavut_communities/hallbe.html Hall Beach] at theAtlas of Canada ] ), Syllabics: ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ) is anInuit settlement,Qikiqtaaluk Region inNunavut ,Canada , established in1957 during the construction of a Distant Early Warning (DEW) site. Currently the settlement is home to aNorth Warning System radar facility and theHall 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] ]
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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.
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