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The highlight and main point of interest on the island. The site has over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone, created by the Dorset people. Since April 2018, it has been listed on Canada's tentative UNESCO's world heritage list. Most of what you will see in the archeological site depicts human faces, but you may also encounter animal faces, or both.Though it had been known to the Inuit people for a long time, it has been known to non-Inuit people only since the 1960s, when it was first documented by anthropologist Bernard Saladin D’Anglure.
Qajartalik is a petroglyph site located on the Qajartalik peninsula of Qikertaaluk Island, Nunavut, approximately 40 km southeast of Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec. The site consists of over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone. It was created by the Dorset people, the culture who inhabited the Canadian eastern Arctic and Greenland beginning approximately 2,200 years ago before disappearing approximately 1,000 years ago, and who inhabited the region prior to the Thule Inuit who arrived approximately 800 years ago. It is believed to be the northernmost rock art site in North America and is considered to be one of a kind. The site is currently on Canada's tentative list of sites proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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