Cape Fullerton is a cape

Headlands and bays

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 and peninsula in Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

, Canada

Canada

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 located on the northwest shores of Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay , sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...

 on Roes Welcome Sound

Roes Welcome Sound

Roes Welcome Sound is an Arctic Ocean waterway in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin and opens north to Repulse Bay. It is situated between the mainland and Southampton Island, north of Marble Island. Roes Welcome Sound measures long, and wide.It is named after Sir...

 and includes Fullerton Harbour. Today it is part of Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park is a national park in Nunavut, Canada.Ukkusiksalik National Park is a tundra and coastal mudflat region extending south of the Arctic Circle and the hamlet of Repulse Bay, from Hudson Bay's Roes Welcome Sound towards the western Barrenlands and the source of Brown River....

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Although Cape Fullerton was traditionally home to migrant Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

 people including the Aivilingmiut

Aivilingmiut

The Aivilingmiut are an Inuit people who traditionally have resided north of Hudson Bay in Canada, near Naujaat , Chesterfield Inlet, Southampton Island, and Cape Fullerton. They are descendants of the Thule people and are considered a southern subgroup of the Iglulik Inuit...

 and the Qaernermiut (Caribou Inuit

Caribou Inuit

Caribou Inuit, Barren-ground Caribou hunters, are bands of inland Inuit who lived west of Hudson Bay in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region of present-day Nunavut between 61° and 65° N and 90° and 102° W...

), today the nearest permanently populated settlement is Chesterfield Inlet

Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut

The community of Chesterfield Inlet is located on the western shore of Hudson Bay, Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut Canada at the mouth of Chesterfield Inlet. Igluligaarjuk is the Inuktitut word for "place with few houses", it is the oldest community in Nunavut...

, roughly 100 kilometers to the southwest.

In the early 1900s, Fullerton Harbour was a popular wintering station for American

United States

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 and Scottish

Scottish people

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 whaling

Whaling

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 ships and a trading point between the Inuit and the southern whalers. In September 1903, the first North-West Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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 outpost was established at Cape Fullerton both to establish Canadian sovereignty

Sovereignty

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 as well as to administer whaling licenses, collect customs, control liquor, and maintain order. The NWMP closed about 1914.

From 1915 until 1919, Captain George Cleveland (1871-1925) ran a trading post

Trading post

A trading post was a place or establishment in historic Northern America where the trading of goods took place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, was known as a trade route....

 at Fullerton Harbour, under the employ of furrier F. N. Monjo

Monjo Company

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 of New York City

New York City

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. In 1919, the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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 obtained the post and Cleveland moved it to Repulse Bay

Repulse Bay, Nunavut

Repulse Bay is an Inuit hamlet located on the shore of Hudson Bay, Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut, Canada.-Location and wildlife:The hamlet is located exactly on the Arctic Circle, on the north shore of Repulse Bay and on the south shore of the Rae Isthmus. Transport to the community is provided...

. It was also in 1919 that Captain George Comer

George Comer

Captain George Comer was considered the most famous American whaling captain of Hudson Bay, and the world's foremost authority on Hudson Bay Inuit in the early 20th century....

 grounded his schooner

Schooner

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, the Finback, at Cape Fullerton; it was to be his last Arctic

Arctic

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voyage.

In 1924, an old carpenter’s shop and an outbuilding were dismantled from the remains of Cape Fullerton Outpost and the lumber shipped to Chesterfield Inlet.

In the winter of 1940-41, "the disused Police barracks at Fullerton Harbour" were still being used for refuge for travelers.