| Latitude : | 63.75639 | |
| Longitude : | -68.55583 | |
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| Startup date : | January 1, 1900 |
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Anthropogenic site. The city of Iqaluit is located southeast of Baffin Island in a valley open on Frobisher Bay, an inlet reaching out to the Hudson strait and the Arctic Ocean.
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The Iqaluit International airport is located west of the village, near the Sylvia Grinnell territorial park. The airport paved infrastructures consist of a 3km long airstrip (the longest in Nunavut territory), taxiways (A, B, C, D and E; F and G are under construction.) and aprons (I, II and III) (Mathon-Dufour et Allard, 2015).
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