Dundas Harbour is an abandoned settlement. It was established in 1924 as part of a government effort to curb foreign whaling. The Hudson Bay Company leased the outpost in 1933 and the next year 52 Inuit were relocated there. It was assumed that they would be able to sustain a subsistence existence. But they left 13 years later as the hunting grounds were poor and the weather harsh. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police maintained a presence in the 1940s, but abandoned the settlement in 1951. Only the ruins of a few buildings remain and one of the northernmost cemeteries in Canada. Devon Island is now uninhabited (by people).
The beach is full of miniature icebergs.
We sailed around the coast into the harbour itself and spotted a mother polar bear with her two nearly fully grown cubs on the scree.
