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Killiniq
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❔ Cause unknown

Killiniq

Ghost town · Canada

Abandoned
1978
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
60.423, -64.840
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Why it was abandoned

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History

Killiniq is a former Inuit settlement, weather station, trading post, missionary post, fishing station, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police post on Killiniq Island. Previously within Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, it is now situated within the borders of Nunavut. The community closed in 1978.

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