Kapuiviit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᐳᐃᕖᑦKapuiviit), formerly Jens Munk Island,Kapuiviit (Formerly Jens Munk Island) is one of the Canadian arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island with an area of .
The island presently has no permanent resident population (since displacements driven by colonialism took place in the 1950s and 1960s) but it remains an important outpost camp in the Igloolik Island area. Historically, however, it was the location of Kapuivik, a hunting camp which is now an important archaeological site for the research of pre-Inuit peoples including the Dorset (Tuniit), Pre-Dorset and Paleo-Inuit.Samantha Walker, Low-altitude aerial thermography for the archaeological investigation of arctic landscapes, Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol 117, May 2020Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 2: Arctic and Subarctic, Volume 6. Springer Science+Business Media, 2001. . p. 41. It was formerly named after Dano-Norwegian explorer Jens Munk.
Kapuivik was also the birthplace of noted film director Zacharias Kunuk."Zacharias Kunuk’s life, from a sod house to the Cannes Film Festival". Toronto Star, April 26, 2015.
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