Dundas Harbour

Dundas Harbour

Dundas Harbour is an abandoned settlement located in the Qikiqtaaluk region of Nunavut, Canada. Located on the east coast of the Devon Island waterway, also known as Dundas Harbour. Immediately to the west is Croker's Bay in Baffin Bay. In August 1924, an outpost was set up in the harbor as part of a government presence to curb foreign whaling and other activities. In 1933, the Hudson's Bay Company leased the outpost. In the following year, 52 Inuit were resettled from Kinngait to Dundas Harbour, but 13 years later they returned to the mainland. The Dundas Harbour was repopulated in the late 1940s to keep the patrol service going, but in 1951 it was closed again because of ice difficulties. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment has been transferred to Craig Harbour, south of Ellesmere Island. All that remains of the abandoned settlement are the ruins of a few buildings, and one of the northernmost cemeteries in Canada. Musk Oxen live in the area, and walruses can be seen not far from the shore.