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Nunavut<br />
Nunavut is an immense territory of<br />
tundra, plateaux and mountains that<br />
includes the Arctic archipelago: a hidden<br />
world until the advent of air travel. This<br />
beautiful land is Canada’s newest territory,<br />
splitting from the Northwest Territories in<br />
1999 as a self-ruling Inuit community. The<br />
territory covers about one fifth of Canada’s<br />
land mass and stretches from Hudson Bay<br />
in the south to the Arctic islands in the north.<br />
The famed Northwest Passage wends its<br />
way through the northern islands and<br />
consequently this was the theatre for many<br />
historic Arctic voyages. Nunavut, meaning<br />
“our land” in the Inuktitut language, is<br />
home to 28 Inuit communities, of which the<br />
largest, with a population of 6,500, is Iqaluit.<br />
Accessible only by air and sea, this region is<br />
rich with the fascinating culture of the Inuit<br />
communities, the flowers of the arctic tundra<br />
and the dancing celestial phenomenon of<br />
the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.<br />
A plethora of wildlife inhabits these desolate<br />
lands, with polar bears, arctic foxes, whales,<br />
narwhals, walrus, musk oxen and herds of<br />
caribou in abundance. Bathed through the<br />
summer, by the light of a midnight sun,<br />
Nunavut is a unique blend of culture,<br />
wilderness and wildlife.<br />
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