Nanisivik (Inuktitut: ᓇᓂᓯᕕᒃ, lit. 'the place where people find things'; /nəˈniːsɪvɪk/) is a now-abandoned company town which was built in 1975 to support...
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Nanisivik Airport, formerly (IATA: YSR, ICAO: CYSR), was located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of Nanisivik, Nunavut, Canada, and was operated...
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The Nanisivik Naval Facility (French: installation navale de Nanisivik) is a Canadian Forces naval facility on Baffin Island, Nunavut. The station is built...
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Nanisivik Mine was a zinc-lead mine in the company town of Nanisivik, Nunavut, 750 km (470 mi) north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island. It was Canada's...
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at Iqaluit Airport and Nanisivik Airport. The First Air service from Ottawa also made intermediate stops in Iqaluit and Nanisivik. The OAG indicates that...
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relocated from Nanisivik, but those hopes were dashed due to lead-zinc contamination. However, a church was relocated from Nanisivik to Arctic Bay in...
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Navy are individual commissioned ships of the RCN. Esquimalt Halifax Nanisivik St. John's British Columbia: CFB Esquimalt Nova Scotia: CFB Halifax Newfoundland...
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Formerly, there was a mining town at Nanisivik. However, it and the Nanisivik Mine closed in 2002, with Nanisivik Airport closing in 2010 and all flights...
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annual sealifts. In 1975, a town was built at Nanisivik to support lead and zinc production at the Nanisivik Mine—the first Canadian mine in the Arctic....
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Canadian Armed Forces are currently constructing a new naval facility at Nanisivik, Baffin Island, to provide a summer port for RCN patrols in the Canadian...
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