Dundas Harbour (74°31′N 82°23′W) is an abandoned settlement in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut

Nunavut

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located on Devon Island

Devon Island

Devon Island , claimed to be the largest uninhabited island on Earth, is located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the second-largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada's sixth largest island, and the 27th...

 at the eastern shore of the waterway also named Dundas Harbour. Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay

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's Croker Bay

Croker Bay

Croker Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It lies off the southern coast of Devon Island in the eastern high Arctic...

 is immediately to the west.

An outpost was established at the harbour in August 1924 as part of a government presence intended to curb foreign whaling

Whaling

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 and other activity. Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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 leased the outpost in 1933. The following year, 52 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...

 were relocated from Cape Dorset to Dundas Harbour but they returned to the mainland 13 years later.

Dundas Harbour was populated again in the late 1940s to maintain a patrol presence, but it was closed again in 1951 due to ice difficulties. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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 detachment was moved to Craig Harbour

Craig Harbour, Nunavut

Craig Harbour is an abandoned settlement in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Ellesmere Island, on the north shore of Jones Sound, southeast of Grise Fiord....

 on southern Ellesmere Island

Ellesmere Island

Ellesmere Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Lying within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, it is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, with Cape Columbia being the most northerly point of land in Canada...

.

Only the ruins of a few buildings remain, along with the most northern cemetery in the world.