# Dundas Harbour > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dundas_Harbour > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dundas_Harbour.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Harbour > Source revision: 1353766975 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Ghost town on Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada Ghost town in Nunavut, Canada Dundas Harbour Talluruti Ghost town Dundas Harbour Dundas Harbour (Nunavut) Coordinates: 74°32′N 82°23′W / 74.533°N 82.383°W / 74.533; -82.383 (Dundas Harbour)[1] Country Canada Territory Nunavut Founded August 1924 Abandoned 1951 Population • Total 0 **Dundas Harbour** ([Inuktitut](/source/Inuktitut): ***Talluruti***, "a woman's chin with tattoos on it"[2]) is an abandoned settlement in the [Qikiqtaaluk Region](/source/Qikiqtaaluk_Region), [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada. It is located on [Devon Island](/source/Devon_Island) at the eastern shore of the waterway also named Dundas Harbour ([74°33′N 82°30′W / 74.550°N 82.500°W / 74.550; -82.500 (Dundas Harbour (bay))](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Dundas_Harbour¶ms=74_33_N_82_30_W_type:landmark_scale:50000_region:CA-NU&title=Dundas+Harbour+%28bay%29)[3]). [Baffin Bay](/source/Baffin_Bay)'s [Croker Bay](/source/Croker_Bay) is immediately to the west and [Parry Channel](/source/Parry_Channel) to the south. An outpost was established at the harbour in August 1924 as part of a government presence intended to curb foreign [whaling](/source/Whaling) and other activities. The [Hudson's Bay Company](/source/Hudson's_Bay_Company) leased the outpost in 1933. The following year, 52 [Inuit](/source/Inuit) were relocated from [Kinngait](/source/Kinngait) (then called Cape Dorset) to Dundas Harbour but they returned to the mainland 13 years later.[4] Dundas Harbour was populated again in the late 1940s to maintain a patrol presence, but it was closed again in 1951 due to ice difficulties. The [Royal Canadian Mounted Police](/source/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police) detachment[5] was moved to [Craig Harbour](/source/Craig_Harbour) on southern [Ellesmere Island](/source/Ellesmere_Island).[6] Only the ruins of a few buildings remain, along with one of the northernmost cemeteries in Canada.[7] ## Gallery - Polar bear eating a beluga whale in Dundas Harbor - Abandoned settlement in Johnson Bay, Dundas Harbour (from near the cemetery) - Johnson Bay Cemetery, Dundas Harbour sits above the abandoned settlement. It contains the graves of two RCMP members. ## See also - [List of communities in Nunavut](/source/List_of_communities_in_Nunavut) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Dundas Harbour"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=OAERW). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [The Canadian Northwest Passage?](http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_dec._11/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120222043639/http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_dec._11/) 2012-02-22 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Taissumani. [Nunatsiaq News](/source/Nunatsiaq_News) 2009-12-17 [Kenn Harper](/source/Kenn_Harper) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Dundas Harbour (bay)"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=OAERV). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Alia_4-0)** Alia, Valerie (2007). [*Names and Nunavut: culture and identity in Arctic Canada*](https://books.google.com/books?id=r0CUU3ZKMpkC&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA52). Berghahn Series. Berghahn Books. p. 52. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-84545-165-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84545-165-3). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Grant_5-0)** Grant, Shelagh (2005). [*Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923*](https://books.google.com/books?id=FrkJetCi3nYC&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA334). McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 340. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7735-2929-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7735-2929-2). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Tammarniit_6-0)** Tester, Frank J.; Peter Keith Kulchyski (1994). [*Tammarniit (mistakes): Inuit relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HVf9N3jdsp4C&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA415). UBC Press. p. 122. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7748-0452-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7748-0452-1). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [RCMP, military honour early northern officers](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/rcmp-military-honour-early-northern-officers-1.576110) v t e Subdivisions of Nunavut Regions Kitikmeot (Unorganized) Kivalliq (Unorganized) Qikiqtaaluk (Unorganized) Electoral districts Federal Nunavut Territorial Aggu Aivilik Amittuq Arviat North-Whale Cove Arviat South Baker Lake Cambridge Bay Gjoa Haven Hudson Bay Iqaluit-Manirajak Iqaluit-Niaqunnguu Iqaluit-Sinaa Iqaluit-Tasiluk Kugluktuk Netsilik Pangnirtung Quttiktuq Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet Rankin Inlet South South Baffin Tununiq Uqqummiut Communities Arctic Bay Arviat Baker Lake Bathurst Inlet Cambridge Bay Chesterfield Inlet Clyde River Coral Harbour Gjoa Haven Grise Fiord Igloolik Iqaluit Apex Kimmirut Kinngait Kugaaruk Kugluktuk Naujaat Pangnirtung Pond Inlet Qikiqtarjuaq Rankin Inlet Resolute Sanikiluaq Sanirajak Taloyoak Whale Cove Weather stations and Canadian Armed Forces bases Alert CFS Alert Ennadai Eureka Isachsen Nanisivik Naval Facility Mine sites Operating Baffinland Iron Mine Doris North Meadowbank Gold Mine Defunct Bent Horn Mine Cullaton Lake/Shear Lake Mine Jericho Diamond Mine Lupin Mine Nanisivik Mine Polaris mine Rankin Inlet Mine DEW line and NWS sites Bernard Harbour Bray Island Brevoort Island Broughton Island Byron Bay Cambridge Bay Cape Dyer Cape Hooper Cape Mcloughlin Cape Mercy Cape Peel West Cape Young Clifton Point Clinton Point Croker River Dewar Lakes Durban Island Edinburgh Island Ekalugad Gjoa Haven Gladman Point Harding River Hat Island Kangok Fjord Keats Point Keith Bay Kivitoo Lady Franklin Point Lailor River Loks Land Longstaff Bluff Mackar Inlet Matheson Point Nudluardjuk Lake Pelly Bay Qikiqtaryuaq Resolution Island Ross Point Rowley Island Sanirajak Scarpa Lake Shepherd Bay Simpson Lake Sturt Point Former Amadjuak Brooman Point Village Craig Harbour Dundas Harbour Iglunga Killiniq Nanisivik Native Point Nuwata Padlei Port Leopold Tavani Hudson's Bay Company trading posts Amadjuak Apex Arctic Bay Baker Lake Bathurst Inlet Bay Chimo Belcher Islands Blacklead Island Cambridge Bay Cape Dorset Charlton Island Depot Chesterfield Inlet Clyde River Coats Island Dundas Harbour Eskimo Point Fort Hearne Fort Ross Frobisher Bay Gjoa Haven Igloolik Kent Peninsula King William Island Kugaryuak Lake Harbour Mansel Island Nueltin House Padley Pangnirtung Pangnirtung Fox Farm Perry River Ponds Inlet Port Burwell Port Leopold Repulse Bay Southampton Island Tavane Tree River Wager Inlet This Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut location article is a stub. 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