Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas
Project Researcher Darren Keith interviews Kugaaruk Elders. left to right: Gino Aqqaq, Otto Apsaktuan, Guy Kakkianiun, Jose Angutinguniq and Levi Illuitok (behind Darren). |
 
System Requirements:
The Atlas is currently fully functional using the Firefox 3 browser (or higher) on Windows or the Safari 3.1 browser (or higher) on Mac.
If you are unable to meet the system requirements, please try the alternative Atlas site at: http://atlas.gcrc.carleton.ca/kpa_alt/names/.
Atlas Administrator: Darren Keith
Project Background
The Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas is the result of an ongoing program of place name recording in the communities of the Kitikmeot Region. The purpose of the project is to comprehensively record the traditional Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun place names of the region, including their pronounciations, meanings and associated oral traditions. This work will ensure that the region’s place names will continue to be known to future generations of Nunavummiut.
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society would like to thank the Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth for its support of this project. We are also very pleased with our working relationship with the Geographic and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) of Carleton University, who has developed the programming for the Atlas using their Nunaliit Framework (learn more).
The Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas is a work in progress that will continue to improve and expand with time. Our goals for this year (2007/2008) are:
- to expand it to cover the complete landuse areas of the communities of Kugaaruk, Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay;
- record more multimedia content by working with Elders in Kugaaruk, Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay, and add this content to the site;
- develop a user input function on the site that will allow community members, researchers and others to contribute place name and multimedia content to the site;
- add a topographic map background as an option to the satellite imagery background currently on the atlas.
- Interest other communities in the region in becoming part of the Atlas.
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