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Flag of the Nunavut Territory,
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Source, by: Wikipedia (D)
The flag of Nunavut was hoisted first on 1st of April in 1999. It is vertically divided in yellow (gold) and white (silver). Yellow stands for the mineral wealth and white for ice and snow. In the middle between both colours a red "inukshuk", a stone pillar representing a person and used by the Inuit as directional marker or milestone. In the right upper corner of the white field is a blue five-pointed star, the North Star. The five jags stand for the five indigenous nordic peoples of the Eskimo: Inuit (Canada), Inuvialuit (Canada), Kalaallit (Greenland), Inupiaq (Alaska) und Jupikyt (Russia).
Source: Wikipedia (D)
Coat of arms of Nunavut,
Source: Di (they-them), based on blazon provided by the
Canadian Heraldic Authority, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The coat of arms of the Canadian Nunavut Territory was approved on the occasion of the foundation of the Territory by Governor General Roméo LeBlanc. It is certainly the first coat of arms in the world, which shows symbols of the Inuit inside an conventional coat of arms. The shield is round and horizontally twofold divided in blue and yellow. The some smaller upper half is blue and shows the North Star, the biger below half is golden and stands for the mineral wealth of the country or also for the midnight sun, and it containes the depictions of a "qulliq", a stone lamp which stands for the warmth in the houses and the community, and an "inukshuk", a stone pillar representing a person and used by the Inuit as directional marker or milestone. The crest shows an igloo. It stands for the traditional live, the survival and the government of Nunavut. On the igloo the British crown. It stands for the royal sovereignty. Shield holders are a caribou (reindeer) and a narwhal. They represent the livelihood and the natural resources of the country of the land and sea. They stand on a compartment which on the right is overgrown with Arctic poppies, dwarf fireweed, and Arctic heather, and to the left it shows an iceberg at sea. On the front of the compartment in Inuktitut, one of the der languages of the Inuit the motto of the country "Nunavut Sanginivut" → "Nunavut our strength"
Source:
Wikipedia (D)
Map:
Volker Preuß
Area: 725.010 square miles
Inhabitants: 39.797 (2016), thereof 85% Eskimo (Inuit)
Density of Population: 0,05 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Iqaluit (to 1986 Frobisher Bay), 7.740 inh. (2016)
official Languages: English, French, Eskimo (Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun)
Currency: Canadian currency
Time Zone: GMT – 4 to – 7 h
Source:
Wikipedia (D)
ca. 10.000–4.000 years B.C. · settlement by ancestors of the Eskimos
ca. 1000 A.D. · Normans reach the Canadian eastern coast
1576 · Martin Frobisher, an English seafarer, discovers the coast of Baffin Island
17th century · expeditions under Henry Hudson, William Baffin and Robert Bylot
1670 · English furriers establish the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the HBC colonizes in the afteryears whole Canada between New France, the Rocky Mountains, Labrador and the northern rand of the Hudson Bay
1869 · the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) cedes all their territorial rights and prerogatives to the British Dominion of Canada
1870 · formation of the Northwest Territories from the former properties of the HBC, Rupertsland and Northwestern Territories, the Arctic Islands come under direct British administration
1870 · establishment of the Province of Manitoba by dividing of the Northwest Territories
1876 · establishment of the Keewatin Territory by dividing off the Northwest Territories
1880 · incorporation of the Arctic Islands into the Northwest Territories
1881 · enlargement of the Province of Manitoba by annexation of territories of the Keewatin Territory
1883 · establishment of the Territories Alberta, Athabaska, Saskatchewan and Assiniboia by dividing off the Northwest Territories
1895 · establishment of the District of Franklin and the District of Mackenzie within the Northwest Territories, establishment of the Yukon Territory in the outer northwest by dividing off the Northwest Territories
1905 · incorporation of Keewatin as district in the Northwest Territories
1912 · once again enlargement of the Province of Manitoba by annexation of the southern regions of the District of Keewatin
1925 · extension of the borders of the Northwest Territory as sector's frontiers towards the North Pole
1st of April 1999 · establishment of the Eskimo Nunavut Territory with an own regional government by dividing off the Northwest Territories at the cost of the District of Keewatin, of nearly the whole District of Franklin and of large parts of the District of Mackenzie
Source:
Atlas zur Geschichte,
World Statesmen,
Wikipedia (D),
Discovery '97
The name of the territory goes back to the language of the Eskimo (Innuit) and means translated "our country".
Source:
Wikipedia (D)
