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Kanajjut

Coordinates: 62°15′32″N 068°13′39″W / 62.25889°N 68.22750°W / 62.25889; -68.22750
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Kanajjut
Kanajjut is located in Nunavut
Kanajjut
Kanajjut
Location in Nunavut
LocationBaffin Island, Nunavut
Coordinates62°15′32″N 068°13′39″W / 62.25889°N 68.22750°W / 62.25889; -68.22750
TypeInlet
Ocean/sea sourcesHudson Strait
Basin countriesCanada

Kanajjut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᓇᔾᔪᑦ[1]) formerly Wight Inlet[2] is a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region. It lies in western Hudson Strait, forming a wedge into Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula and the western slopes of the Everett Mountains.

It was, for a time, named after Sergeant James Edward Freeman Wight, North-West Mounted Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had been involved with the arrest of Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak.

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