Niaqulik – Head Point

Niaqulik (Head Point) is located where the coastal plain drops abruptly to the flats at the mouth of the Babbage River. Traditionally, this was a rich and common stopping place for Inuvialuit living on the coast and people travelling from Old Crow to Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island). Families lived here year-round in sod houses, skin tents, and later frame houses, including the Kurugaqs, Inglangasuks, Irigaqtuaqs and Aluniqs, whose descendants live in present-day Aktlarvik and Inuuvik. Other remnants of family life include ice houses, grave markers, and sod quarries.