Kivalliq Region Champions

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Please see the post below for more information on Baker Lake, Nunavut, and the basketball tournament.
Nunavut was ceremonially separated from Canada's Northwest Territories in July of 1999. While about 85 per cent of the territory's inhabitants are Inuit, there are three distinct geographical regions.
The seven communities of the Kivalliq region are home to somewhere around 8,000 people and are primarily situated around Hudson Bay. The boys in this photo have just won the Kivalliq regional basketball tournament in a home gym packed with hundreds of cheering fans.
They will play the winning teams from Nunavut's two other regions, the Kitikmeot (West), and Baffin (East) on the weekend of Dec. 4, assuming the weather is reasonably good and the planes are able to land.
As a point of interest, Baffin island is said to have greater name recognition among Canadians than Nunavut itself.
Now you know.