Canada Map Skills: Nunavut
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Nunavut Canada Map
Use this map to answer the questions on the following pages.
Measure approximate distances along a straight line, not along roads.
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Canada Map Skills: Nunavut
Name ___________________________________________ Date _________________
Nunavut Canada Map
Map Skills Questions
1. What is Nunavut’s motto?
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2. What is the capital of Nunavut?
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3. What country lies across the Kane Basin from Ellesmere Island?
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4. What two provinces lie to the east and west of James Bay and
Akimiski Island?
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5. Name the river that flows through Garry Lake.
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6. What community is located on Devon Island?
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7. What ocean borders Nunavut to the north?
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8. Name the island that lies across Foxe Channel from Cape Dorset.
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9. What direction would you travel from Baker Lake to reach Dubawnt
Lake?
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10. Name the province that has a physical border with Nunavut on the
south.
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Canada Map Skills: Nunavut
Name ___________________________________________ Date _________________
Nunavut Canada Map
Map Skills Questions, con’t.
11. What is the northernmost city in Nunavut?
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12. What community lies north across Parry-Channel from Somerset
Island?
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13. What body of water separates Prince of Wales Island from Victoria
Island?
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14. What is the approximate distance in kilometers between Iqaluit and
Pond Inlet?
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15. Name the community nearest Cumberland Sound.
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16. What community is southwest of Rankin Inlet?
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17. What is the approximate distance in kilometers between Kugluktuk
and Rankin Inlet?
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18. Name the community on the southern end of Ellesmere Island.
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19. What island is about 200 miles southwest of the Belcher Islands?
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20. Name the two bodies of water that lie between the mainland and
Baffin Island.
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Canada Map Skills: Nunavut
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Nunavut Canada Map
ANSWERS:
1. Our land, our strength
2. Iqaluit
3. Greenland
4. Ontario and Quebec
5. Back River
6. Dundas Harbour
7. Arctic Ocean
8. Southampton Island
9. southwest
10. Manitoba
11. Alert
12. Resolute
13. McClintock Channel
14. About 1000 kilometers
15. Pangnirtung
16. Arviat
17. About 1200 kilometers
18. Grise Fjord
19. Akimiski Island
20. Gulf of Boothia and Foxe Basin
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