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Cambridge Bay| Hamlet in Kitikmeot, located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, southeast of Victoria Island, on Cambridge Bay off Dease Strait, 800 km/500 mi north-northeast of Yellowknife; population (1996 est) 1,400. A tiny Inuit community before the 1940s, it became a navigational and Distant Early Warning line (DEW Line) of radar installations in the 1950s. It is now an administrative centre with a fish packing plant and scientific and government facilities. |
| Features include part of the Nunavut Arctic College (1984) and an airport. |
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