Nunavut
From World travel guide
Nunavut is an extensive territory in the far North of Canada, located east of the Northwest Territories (of which it used to be part), north of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, and west of the Danish territory of Greenland. Nunavut comprises a large portion of the northern tip of the North American continent and a large number of islands on Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
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Regions
- Baffin Island - Canada's largest island (and the world's 5th largest) located in the eastern portion of the territory of Nunavut
- Ellesmere Island
Cities
- Iqaluit - capital and largest settlement of Nunavut (NB: don't spell it Iqualuit, that means something like 'those guys over there that don't wipe their bums'|)
Other destinations
Understand
Nunavut means our land in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit. This newest and largest of Canada's provinces and territories was split off from the Northwest Territories in 1999 after a long land-claims process. The official languages are English, French, Inuktitut, and Innuinaqtun.
It is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the world - fewer than 30,000 people in an area the size of Western Europe. The immense territory includes most of Canada's Arctic Islands, from Baffin Island in the territory's southeast, where the capital Iqaluit is located, to Ellesmere Island a few hundred kilometers from the North Pole. The territory also includes all of the islands in Hudson Bay.
Its tourist trade, based on Inuit crafts and culture and the austere beauty of the wilderness, is rudimentary but growing.
Talk
Get in
Access is only by air - there is no road or rail from the south, and consequently prices are rather expensive owing to the difficulty of shipping goods in.
Get around
See
Do
Eat
Drink
Get out
External links
- Nunavut Tourism - official tourism web site
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