The Best Golfing Experience North of the Arctic Circle

Ulukhaktok formerly know as Holman is a remote community of approximately 460 people located on the Western side of Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories about 900 KM North of Yellowknife. It has an international reputation for being extremely friendly & hospitable, beautiful scenery and a clean community. It is not uncommon for visitors to be welcomed to the community by a friendly greeting and a handshake.

Ulukhaktok is the large bluff that over looks the community. In invialuktun, Ulukhaktok means where parts for the “ulu” are found. Sharp slate found in this area was traditionally used to manufacture the ulu, a semi-lunar knife used primarily by women in the preparation of food and skins used for clothing. A short walking trail takes you to a breathtaking view from the third hill on Ulukhaktok bluff marked by 6' Inukshuks 900 feet above sea level. You can see for miles in all directions!

The nineteenth century whalers seldom penetrated as far east as Amundsen Gulf, consequently the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson was the first qallunaaq, or white man, to visit the Copper Inuit people on the west side of Victoria Island in 1911. The permanent community formed around a trading post to capitalize on a then-booming arctic fox fur trapping industry. Ulukhaktok (Holman) was established in 1939 when a Hudson Bay Post and Catholic Mission were established on King’s Bay. In 1966 the community moved to its present location of Queen’s Bay.

The community consists of an Airport, Hamlet Office, a hotel with a restaurant, 2 grocery and dry goods stores, arts & craft store, school, satellite community college, health station, RCMP station and the most Northern 9-hole Golf Course in North America and also located above the Arctic Circle

Due to the geographical remote location, Ulukhaktok has had limited contact with the rest of the world until the middle of the 20th century. Although the past 3 decades has seen many changes with the introduction of power, telephone, television and most recently, the internet, the people continue to maintain a traditional lifestyle.

The community is also known for Char Fishing.