Taloyoak or Talurjuaq is located on the Boothia Peninsula, Kitikmeot

Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island...

, in Canada's 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...

 Territory. The community is served only by air and by annual supply sealift

Sealift

Sealift is a term used predominantly in military logistics and refers to the use of cargo ships for the deployment of military assets, such as weaponry, vehicles, military personnel, and supplies...

. Taloyoak may mean "large blind", referring to a stone caribou blind or a screen used for caribou hunting. The community is situated 460 km (285.8 mi) east of the regional centre of Cambridge Bay

Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Cambridge Bay, named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, is a hamlet located in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada...

, 1224 km (760.6 mi) northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

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Demographics

Year	Population
1981	431
1985	452
1986	540
1988 est.	540
1991	580
2006	809

As of the 2006 census

Canada 2006 Census

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 the population was 809 an increase of 12.4% from the 2001 census

Canada 2001 Census

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Languages spoken are English and Inuktitut

Inuktitut

Inuktitut or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Inuit language is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada...

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Surrounding area

Taloyoak is surrounded by tundra and the ground is black/gray. Although, to the north there is an impressive rock formation that looks similar to Ayers Rock.

See also

• Bill Lyall
  Bill Lyall
  Bill Lyall C.M. of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada is a former territorial level politician. Lyall was elected to the 8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the 1975 election....
  
  
• Martin Hartwell
  Martin Hartwell
  Martin Hartwell was a Canadian bush pilot. On November 8, 1972 Hartwell was given a charter to fly from Cambridge Bay, N.W.T. with three passengers who had just arrived from Spence Bay; a pregnant Inuk woman named Neemee Nulliayok, a 14 year old Inuk boy named David Pisurayak Kootook , and an...
  
  
• Netsilik Inuit
  Netsilik Inuit
  The Netsilik Inuit live predominantly in the communities of Kugaaruk and Gjoa Haven of the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and to a smaller extent in Taloyoak and the north Qikiqtaaluk Region...
  
  
• Netsilik School
  Netsilik School
  Netsilik School in Taloyoak, Nunavut, Canada, serves a population of about 240 students from Kindergarten up to grade 12, as well as a preschool program funded by Aboriginal Headstart Canada which has approximately 40 students. The preschool program, up to grade 3, provides Inuktitut immersion, and...
  
  
• Taloyoak Airport
  Taloyoak Airport
  Taloyoak Airport is located west of Taloyoak, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut.-Airlines and destinations:...
  
  

Further reading

• Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. Taloyoak, Northwest Territories. Ottawa, Ont: CPCGN Secretariat, 1992.
• Gray, Dorothy Allen. Looking Down, Up North with Arctic Specialty Foods from Spence Bay, the Northwest Territories, Canada Recipes. S.l: s.n.], 1974.
• Harris, Pamela. Another Way of Being Photographs of Spence Bay N.W.T. Toronto: Impressions, 1976.
• Williamson, Robert G. The Boothia Peninsula People Social Organization in Spence Bay, N.W.T. Polar Gas socio-economic program. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan. Institute for Northern Studies, 1977.

External links

• Taloyoak at PolarNet]