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| The Nanisivik townsite was developed as part of the infrastructure of the Nanisivik lead/zinc mine, which opened in 1974. Nanisivik is an Inuktitut word that means, appropriately, "the place where one finds things." The ore body was first discovered in 1910 -1911 by Arthur English, a prospector on Captain Joseph Bernier's second Canadian government expedition to the High Arctic. |
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| Down the hill from the townsite, the mountainside is pocked with holes, the result of more than 20 years of underground mining. Ore is stockpiled in a large storage shed on the beach, where it awaits summer shipment to Europe. Nanisivik has the only deep-water harbour on Baffin Island. |
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