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DX PEDITION to CAPE DORSET, NUNAVUT NA-156
OCT., 10, 11, 12, 2025
Hello IOTA chasers!
40-10m cw and ssb
QSL via Ve2xb
QSL VIA Ve2xb ok on qrz.com
Please send SAE with 2 IRCs or SAE and $4USD
Equipment
I'm using my trusty Elecraft K3 and windom antenna
Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning 'high mountain' or 'where the hills are'Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020,is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Cape Dorset is a small village or community among 25 communities in Nunavut along the Hudson Bay coast.
Dxpedtion to Cape Dorset-NA-156-
Oct., 10, 11, 12-2025
History
Kinngait, previously Cape Dorset and Sikusiilaq before that and where the remains of the Thule (Early Inuit) and pre-Inuit Dorset people (Tuniit) were discovered, who lived between 1000 BCE and 1100 CE. The European name of Cape Dorset was given by Captain Luke Foxe after Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, on 24 September 1631..The Inuit originally called the inlet Sikusiilaq, after the area of sea ocean nearby that remains ice-free all winter. Hudson's Bay Company set up a trading post here in 1913, where they traded furs and skins for supplies such as tobacco, ammunition, flour, gas, tea and sugar.
In December 2019, the residents of Cape Dorset voted in favour of a request to officially rename the hamlet to its Inuktitut name of Kinngait. Voters chose between Kinngait, Sikusiilaq, and the English name of Cape Dorset.