Okak

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Derived from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut oĸaĸ (tongue). The settlement was named after Okak Bay, which is shaped roughly like a tongue.

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Okak

  1. A ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador. [From 1776]