page_title: Resolute, Nunavut
hierarchical_section_title: Resolute, Nunavut
caption_attribution_description: English: Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to the Inuit-Settlement “Village” and to Resolute Passage
context_page_description: Resolute or Resolute Bay 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. It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of −15.7 °C. As of the 2016 census the population was 198, a decrease of 7.5% from the 2011 census. As in most other northern communities, the roads and most of the terrain are all gravel.
context_section_description: Resolute or Resolute Bay (Inuktitut: ᖃᐅᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ, romanized: Qausuittuq, lit. 'place with no dawn') 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). As of the 2016 census the population was 198, a decrease of 7.5% from the 2011 census. As in most other northern communities, the roads and most of the terrain are all gravel.
caption: Resolute in 1997. Visible on the left is a long school building (brown).
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