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The Nattinnak Visitors Centre on Tasiujaq (Eclipse Sound) which overlooks Bylot Island, showcases Pond Inlet artists. The Sirmilik National Park on Bylot Island, the Tamaarvik Territorial Park, and the Qilaukat Thule site are near the hamlet.
Pond Inlet is a small, predominantly Inuit community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, located on northern Baffin Island. To the Inuit the name of the place "is and always has been Mittimatalik."
Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik- Place where Mitima is buried) is renowned for its scenery. Located at the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage on the Eclipse Sound and overlooking famous Bylot Island, mountain ranges are viewable in all directions and icebergs often dot the ocean.
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Pond Inlet. Type: Town with 1,620 residents. Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada. Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality. Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 72.69767° or 72° 41' 52" north. Longitude.
Pond Inlet is a small, predominantly Inuit community located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. The hamlet is located on the northern tip of Baffin Island, near the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. It is also known in Inuktitut as Mittimatalik, “the place where Mittima is buried”.
The picturesque hamlet of Pond Inlet, also called ‘Mittimatalik’ in Inuktitut after an unknown ancient person presumed to be buried here, is a traditional Inuit community located on the northern tip of Baffin Island near the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage.
