Nottingham Island (Tujjaat in Inuktitut) is an island of Nunavut, Canada lying at the mouth of Hudson Bay. Nottingham Island was named by the English explorer Henry Hudson in 1610 upon its discovery. A weather station was constructed on the island in 1884. In 1927 an airfield was constructed as part of a program to monitor ice in Hudson Bay. The island became uninhabited in October1970 as Inuit residents migrated to larger towns, primarily Cape Dorset. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... For the electoral districts of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district) and Nunavut (Senate Division). ... Hudson Bay is a large body of water in northeastern Canada. ... . - Thomas A. Janvier, biographer of Henry Hudson. ... Events January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Inuit woman Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ... Cape Dorset is really far north, on Baffin Island in Canada. ...
The island is known for its prominent walrus population. It is also the birthplace of the late Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona. Binomial name Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Walruses are large semi-aquatic mammals that live in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. ... Inuit woman Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ... Pitseolak Ashoona, CM (1904 or 1907 - 1983;Inuktitut syllabics:ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works. ...
RAAF Hercules were preparing to fly to the island early this morning to help in the rescue of the destroyer, which was incapable of pumping out all the water.
The Nottingham, a Type 42 destroyer launched in 1980, is in the middle of a deployment to Australasian waters, where two British-flagged freighters transporting 255kg of processed plutonium from Britain to Japan are due to pass in the next few weeks.
HMS Nottingham was today anchored off the island's Middle Beach, where Australian navy divers were assessing the damage caused when the warship struck rocks two nautical miles east of Lord Howe last night.
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