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