The Ekalluk River is a river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

 in Kitikmeot Region

Kitikmeot Region

Kitikmeot Region can refer to:* Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, a region of Nunavut.* Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories, a region of the Northwest Territories until 1999, with similar but non-coterminal boundaries to the above....

, Nunavut

Nunavut

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, Canada. It is located in central through southeastern Victoria Island. Its source is Ferguson Lake

Ferguson Lake (Kitikmeot Region)

Ferguson Lake is located on southern Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, in northern Canada...

, and it flows west to Wellington Bay

Wellington Bay

Wellington Bay is an Arctic waterway in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Dease Strait, off southern Victoria Island. It is northwest of the community of Cambridge Bay....

 and east to Albert Edward Bay

Albert Edward Bay

Albert Edward Bay is an Arctic waterway in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in western Victoria Strait off the southeastern coast of Victoria Island. There are several islands within the bay, the largest of which is Admiralty Island at its headwaters.The bay is named in honor of...

. Nearby lakes include Keyhole Lake, Kitiga Lake, and Surrey Lake. The closest community is Cambridge Bay.

The people of the Ekalluk River area are called Ekalluktogmiut

Ekalluktogmiut

Ekalluktogmiut were a geographically defined Copper Inuit subgroup in Canada's Nunavut territory. They were located along the Ekalluk River near the center of Victoria Island, Albert Edward Bay in western Victoria Strait, and Denmark Bay...

, a geographically defined Copper Inuit

Copper Inuit

Copper Inuit are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region and the Northwest Territories's Inuvik Region. Most historically lived in the area around Coronation Gulf, on Victoria Island, and southern Banks Island.Their western boundary was Wise Point,...

 subgroup.

Iqaluktuuq

The short span of the Ekalluk River that flows west from Ferguson Lake into eastern Wellington Bay is named Iqaluktuuq (Inuinnaqtun

Inuinnaqtun

Inuinnaqtun , is an indigenous Inuit language of Canada and a dialect of Inuvialuktun. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and some scholars, such as Richard Condon, believe that Inuinnaqtun is more appropriately classified as a dialect of Inuktitut...

, meaning "place of big fish"). Having been inhabited for the last 4,000 years by Tuniit and Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

, it is an important Nunavut archaeological area. The Iqaluktuuq is a source of char

Arctic char

Arctic char or Arctic charr is both a freshwater and saltwater fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters. No other freshwater fish is found as far north. It is the only species of fish in Lake Hazen, on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic...

 fishing and caribou

Reindeer

The reindeer , also known as the caribou in North America, is a deer from the Arctic and Subarctic, including both resident and migratory populations. While overall widespread and numerous, some of its subspecies are rare and one has already gone extinct.Reindeer vary considerably in color and size...

hunting for local residents.

The people of Iqaluktuuq are called Iqaluktuurmiut.