Pingualuit crater
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Pingualuit Crater, October 2007
The Pingualuit crater (French: [Cratère des Pingualuit] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); from Inuit "pimple"),[1] is a relatively young impact crater. It is on the Ungava Peninsula in the region of Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada.
The crater is 3.44 km (2.14 mi) in diameter, and is estimated to be 1.4 ± 0.1 million years old (Pleistocene).[2] The crater and the surrounding area are now part of Pingualuit National Park. The only species of fish in the crater lake is the Arctic char.
The crater was formerly called the "Chubb Crater" and later the "New Quebec Crater" (French: [Cratère du Nouveau-Québec] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)).
Pingualuit Crater Media
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Image of Pingualuit Crater from Landsat 7 satellite image