Nueltin Lake straddles the Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

-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...

 border in Canada

Canada

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. The lake, which has an area of 1851 km² (714.7 sq mi), is predominantly in Nunavut's Kivalliq Region, and on the Manitoba side there is the Nueltin Lake Airport

Nueltin Lake Airport

Nueltin Lake Airport, , is located near to Nueltin Lake, Manitoba, Canada....

 which serves the fishing

Fishing

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 lodge. The lake is split into two parts by a set of narrows

Narrows

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In 1949, the Government of Canada

Government of Canada

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 relocated an 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...

 group, the Ihalmiut

Ihalmiut

The Ihalmiut or Ahiarmiut are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake Little Dubawnt Lake , and north of Thlewiaza in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region of present-day Nunavut...

, to Nueltin from Ennadai Lake

Ennadai Lake

Ennadai Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is long, and wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River.-Geography:The lake is within the Hearne Domain.-Flora:...

but the hunting was poor and they did not stay in the Nueltin area.