Kekerten Island Whaling Station

Site Name: Kekerten Island Whaling Station
Description: The remains of a whaling station, as well as a burial ground and a shipwreck; symbolic of whaling in the Eastern Arctic and of the economic and cultural impact of the whaling on the Inuit in the region
Date: 1857 (established)
Location: Cumberland Sound, Nunavut
Region: North
Geolocation : 65.700, -65.800
Designated: 1985




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