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Mar 10, 2017

Organizers of the Franklin research expedition are looking to Nunavummiut for a name for their new barge.

Suggestions are being collected until March 12. People can offer names by posting them beneath a call for suggestions on the Government of Nunavut’s Facebook page.

Entries should be in Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun because the project is based in the Kitikmeot Region and associated with Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay, according to the project manager for the historic site, Bronwyn Pavey.

“I’m so pleased because they’re so thoughtful, some of them are funny and some of them are very meaningful,” she said.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/barge-naming-facebook-franklin-1.4017635