Kanajjut
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Kanajjut | |
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Location | Baffin Island, Nunavut |
Coordinates | 62°15′32″N 068°13′39″W / 62.25889°N 68.22750°W |
Type | Inlet |
Ocean/sea sources | Hudson Strait |
Basin countries | Canada |
Kanajjut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᓇᔾᔪᑦ[1]), formerly Wight Inlet, [2] is a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region. It lies in western Hudson Strait, forming a wedge into Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula and the western slopes of the Everett Mountains.
It was, for a time, named after Sergeant James Edward Freeman Wight, North-West Mounted Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had been involved with the arrest of Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak.
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