Parc national des Pingualuit

Pingualuit National Park

61.287° N, 73.7213° W

Parc national des Pingualuit is a 1,130 km² québec national park 258 km southwest of Kimmirut, in Quebec. It was established in 2004.

9 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Lac Nallusarqituq (28.6 km²).

Area
1,130 km²
Established
2004
Named lakes
9

Conditions today

-3.3 °C

Light Snow and Drifting SnowWind ENE 14 km/h, gusts 28feels like -8 °C

Observed at Lac Raglan, as of Thu 11:00 p.m. EDT

Tonight: Mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Wind northeast 20 km/h. Temperature steady near minus 1. Wind chill minus 7 overnight.

Weather: Lac Raglan (local forecast), as of 12:05 a.m. EDT

Sun and moon

Civil dawn
6:38 a.m.
Sunrise
7:22 a.m.
Sunset
6:00 p.m.
Civil dusk
6:44 p.m.
Moonrise
6:04 a.m.
Moonset
5:18 p.m.
Moon
Waning crescent, 1% lit

In the park

RankFeatureArea
1Lac Nallusarqituq28.6 km²
2Lac Vergons20.9 km²
3Lac Rouxel19.6 km²
4Lac Saint-Germain18.5 km²
5Lac Manarsulik16.3 km²
6Lac Lamarche10.2 km²
7Lac Pingualuk6.4 km²
8Lac Perron2.19 km²
9Lac de l'Ours Blanc2.18 km²

Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.

Official record

Designation
Québec national park
IUCN category
II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
Managed by
Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction des parcs

Photos

Pingualuit Crater - panoramio
Photo: Martin Tuchscherer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Names

  • Pingualuit National ParkEnglish form