Resolute, Nunavut

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Resolute ᖃᐅᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ Qausuittuq (Inuktitut)
Resolute in August 1997. Visible on the left is a long school building (brown).
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Coordinates: 74°41′45″N 094°49′45″W / 74.69583°N 94.82917°W / 74.69583; -94.82917[4]
Country	Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Region	Qikiqtaaluk
Electoral district	Quttiktuq
Government [1][2]
• Type	Hamlet Council
• Mayor	Jayko Simonie
• MLA	David Akeeagok
Area  (2021)[3]
• Total	115.02 km2 (44.41 sq mi)
Elevation [5]	66 m (217 ft)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	183
• Density	1.6/km2 (4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−05:00 (CDT)
Canadian Postal code	X0A 0V0
Area code	867

Resolute^[4] or Resolute Bay^[6] (Inuktitut: ᖃᐅᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ, romanized: Qausuittuq, lit. 'place with no dawn'^[7]) is an Inuit hamlet on Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is situated at the northern end of Resolute Bay and the Northwest Passage and is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region.

Resolute is one of Canada's northernmost communities and is second only to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island (Alert and Eureka are more northerly but are not considered towns; rather, military outposts and weather stations). It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of −15.7 °C (3.7 °F).^[8] As in most other northern communities, the roads and most of the terrain are all gravel. It is also the closest transit location to Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, which contains the most well-preserved crater on Earth – the Haughton impact crater, formed about 31 million years ago.