Nanook (disambiguation) explained

Nanook, in Inuit mythology, is the master of bears.

Nanook, Nanuk, or Nanuq may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• Nanook (band), Greenlandic pop rock band
• Nanook (TV series), whose title character is named Nanook
• Nanook of the North (1922), a film by Robert Flaherty, often considered the first formal feature-length documentary
• Nanook, Corey Haim's dog in the film The Lost Boys (1987)
• Nanoq Media, a company in Greenland
• Nanook, Aeon of Destruction in

Places

• Tanfield Valley or Nanook, a Viking settlement and archaeological site on Baffin Island
• Nanuk, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Nanook River, Victoria Island, Canada
• Nanook or Nanuk, alternate names of Menukin, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Nanuk-e Bala, alternate name of Naniz-e Olya, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Nanoq, a museum in Jakobstad, Finland

Military

• Operation Nanook (1946), an Arctic expedition undertaken by the US Navy in 1946
• Operation Nanook, annual Arctic exercise by Canada's Maritime Command and Canada's Coast Guard
• Nanuk Remotely Controlled Weapon Station
• Project Nanook, US reconnaissance project

Mascot

• Alaska Nanooks, the University of Alaska Fairbanks sports teams
• Edmonton Eskimos, of the Canadian Football League, mascot from 1997 to 2021

Other uses

• Nanok East Greenland Fishing Company, a Danish company in Greenland
• Nanuk (ship), a 1892 schooner used in several Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s

See also

• "Nanook Rubs It", a song by Frank Zappa on the album Apostrophe (1974)