Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Nunavut
Detourmap lists 97 places in Nunavut, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Amundsen Gulf. 46 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 97
- Oldest
- Haughton impact crater 32 million years ago
- Little known
- 46 of 97
- Share of Canada
- 11%
Nunavut 97
All 97, best known first.
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3.Hans Island
Nature · Renowned
Island off the coast of Ellesmere Island, belonging to Canada and Denmark
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13.Auyuittuq National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park located on Baffin Island, Canada
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26.Dubawnt Lake
Nature · Notable
Large glacial lake in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada
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28.Beechey Island
Archaeological · Notable
Island and Franklin archaeological site in Nunavut, in the Canadian High Arctic
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33.Qikiqtaryuaq
Nature · Notable
Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada; formerly Jenny Lind Island
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47.Adams Island
Nature · Notable
Island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada (lat 71.45, lon -73.08)
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65.Long Island
Nature · Hidden gem
Island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada (lat 54.87, lon -79.42)
Elsewhere in Canada
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Nunavut?
Amundsen Gulf. Gulf in Northwest Territories, Canada. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Nunavut?
97: 93 nature & landscapes and 4 archaeological & historic sites. 46 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Nunavut?
Haughton impact crater, dated to 32 million years ago. 5 of the 97 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Nunavut here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Nunavut if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Nunavut is a first-level division of Canada, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.