Etymology

Port Radium

Today it means: A ghost town in Port Radium, Cameron Bay, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Full definition →

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The story

port+radium. From being a port built to support radium mining and mining of ores that otherwise contain radium, in the region.

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