Fort Ross
Ghost town · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 72.009, -94.236
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Fort Ross is an abandoned former trading post on Somerset Island, in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Founded in 1937, it was the last trading post to be established by the Hudson's Bay Company. It was operational for only eleven years, being abandoned in 1948, as severe ice conditions in the surrounding waters made the site hard to reach and economically unviable.