Editing Voices of Thunder (section)

=Uqshuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven)=

This is a view across Uqshuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven), Nunavut. Most of the events along this cut take place in this community.

[[File:GjoaHaven2021Aug25_1_1.mp4|border|centre|600px|Uqshuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven) filmed by Peiwen Li (2021)]]

Uqshuqtuuq is pronounciated: [uq.suq.tuːq], meaning "lots of fat" in Inuktitut (the language spoken by Inuit), referring to an abundance of marine animals like seals. Its English name, "Gjoa Haven" is pronounced : [Joe.ha.ven] and was given by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his expedition to find the Northwest passage. Gjoa Haven was named after his wooden ship "Gjoa". It is the only hamlet on King William Island, located in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Canada. Its current population is estimated around 1400 people.

My name is Saskia de Wildt, and I visited Gjoa Haven for the first time in 2021- during the second year of my PhD research. 

By then, however, I already knew quite a bit about the history of polar bear hunting restriction in Gjoa Haven. 

<div class="next_choice">'''"Keep Going"''' to read what I had learnt before I ever came to the community.

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Take a '''"Detour"''' to read an abstract of this cut</div>

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