Eenoolooapik

Eenoolooapik ( – 1847), also spelled Inuluapik, was an Inuk hunter and guide who served with British whaler William Penny and visited Scotland. Born on Blacklead Island in Cumberland Sound, Eenoolooapik moved with his family to the island of Aggijjat on the eastern coast of Baffin Island. Acquainted as a youth with Scottish whalers operating in the area, he accompanied Penny to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1839, as part of Penny's attempt to lobby for greater funding for Arctic exploration. Eenoolooapik returned to Baffin in 1840 after visiting Greenland. Alexander McDonald published a biography of Eenoolooapik in 1841, likely the only contemporary full-length biography of any Inuk published during the 19th century. In 1847, he died of tuberculosis developed during his time overseas.

Early life Eenoolooapik (also written as Inuluapik) in the British Arctic Territories. At age ten, he traveled with his family via across the Cumberland Peninsula to the island of Aggijjat (Durban Island) at Nuvuttiq (Cape Searle). Some years after arriving, Eenoolooapik's father took a younger wife and abandoned his family, leaving the teenaged Eenoolooapik and his siblings to support their mother, Nootaapik. Cape Searle was a frequent hunting grounds for Scottish whalers, and the inquisitive Eenoolooapik planned twice to return to Scotland with the whalers, but both times was convinced to stay at Aggijjat by his mother.

In 1833, Scottish whaler William Penny was sent to investigate Inuit claims of a large bay (corresponding to Cumberland Sound), supposedly a rich whale hunting ground to the south of Exeter Bay that they called .