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FS2004 Scenery--Baker Lake (CYBK) in Nunavut, Canada. Hall Beach is the only Nunavut community that is not next to the sea. It is on the shore of Baker Lake, 160 miles west and a bit north of Rankin Inlet on the shore of Hudson Bay. The Hudson Bay Company opened a trading post there in 1916 and the town slowly developed, though as recently as 1946 the population was still only 32. These days the airfield is the support field for several nearby mines and there are now nearly 1800 folks in Baker Lake. The runway is almost 4200' of 100' wide gravel and lighted; the alignment is 162T and 342T as this is in northern domestic airspace and bearings are given as 'true" and not "magnetic". Both JET A and 100LL fuel is available. The town is to the northeast of the airfield. By Roger Wensley.