This territory includes one island in James Bay and the eastern half of Victoria Island, and Frobisher Bay was the old name of its capital city, Iqaluit, which is located on Baffin Island.
A flurry of new spending projects in this region in 2011 will include the construction of a deepwater port at Nanisivik and a new atmospheric research laboratory at Eureka. Since the 1962 closure of a nearby nickel mine, this place's second largest city of Rankin Inlet has been beset by unemployment, and that city understandably lost a 1995 plebiscite to be this place's capital. This territory includes one island in James Bay and the eastern half of Victoria Island, and Frobisher Bay was the old name of its capital city, Iqaluit, which is located on Baffin Island. For 10 points, identify this majority-Inuit Canadian territory that in 1999 split off from the Northwest Territory.
A flurry of new spending projects in this region in 2011 will include the construction of a deepwater port at Nanisivik and a new atmospheric research laboratory at Eureka.
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