Pangnirtung

Pangnirtung lies beneath the mountains of southeastern Baffin Island, beside a fjord opening into Cumberland Sound. Inuit families hunted and fished along these shores, moving between seasonal camps as animals and ice conditions changed. Earlier Thule winter houses were built of stone, sod and whalebone. British whalers appeared along the Davis Strait coast in the 1820s, beginning a period of new encounters for the Inuit of the region; the great whaling stations in Cumberland Sound came later.