Sunrise

This photo was taken at 9:45 on February 8.

Just a few Igloolik facts. The population here is 1600. 90% are Inuit and generally speaking everyone here speaks Inuktituk. Power is supplied to the town by four diesel generators. Fuel for those and the vehicles in town is supplied once a year by a tanker that comes into port and pumps fuel up to a three large fuel storage containers to the west of town. The houses are heated with fuel oil and water is supplied via a tanker truck that gets water from a well system just outside the town limits. The tankers supplying fuel oil and water are running pretty much 10 hours a day and just keep going from house to house. Each residence has heated storage tanks either under the house or inside the house that hold water and sewage. There are a couple of sewage trucks that come around and clean out the tanks. Sewage is disposed of at a series of open sewage lagoons east of town.

There is an Anglican and catholic church here. There are two stores, and two hotels both of which have small restaurants. The one hotel does pizza delivery and I had a chance to have their Arctic Char pizza (similar fish to salmon) and its was excellent. So far the people here have been very friendly.

The detachment boundary is approximately 35 miles south of Igloolik and 500 miles north and is somewhat egg shaped. There are no other communities within the area, however, there are a number of temporary camps that are used for hunting.

If anyone has particular questions post them in the comments and I will try and answer them.