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The Northwest Territories<br />
Stretching from the 60th parallel up to the<br />
Beaufort Sea in the north, the Northwest<br />
Territories offer the adventurous traveller a<br />
deeply rewarding experience. The capital city,<br />
Yellowknife, is situated on the Great Slave<br />
Lake, at the heart of Canada’s diamond<br />
mines. To the north, across a landscape of lakes<br />
and stunted forests, lies the Great Bear Lake<br />
whilst westwards the Mackenzie Mountains<br />
form a natural border with the Yukon.<br />
Perhaps the greatest jewel is Nahanni<br />
National Park, where the challenging rapids<br />
of the South Nahanni River have dug gorges<br />
deeper than the Grand Canyon and created<br />
waterfalls twice as high as Niagara Falls<br />
through a wild and dramatic landscape:<br />
surely one of the finest wilderness areas in<br />
North America. The territory has excellent,<br />
accessible wildlife viewing that includes herds<br />
of wild bison in Wood Buffalo National Park<br />
and caribou, moose and bears as well as<br />
nights that dance with the lights of the Aurora<br />
Borealis. Running northwards flows the<br />
mighty Mackenzie River, in whose delta lies<br />
the settlement of Inuvik which is home to the<br />
famous igloo church, July’s Great Northern<br />
(Inuit) Arts Festival and the town that marks<br />
the end of the epic Dempster Highway.<br />
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