NUNAVUT
Canada's
Polar North
Experience the real Arctic, a wild and dramatic
landscape of glaciers, treeless tundra, mountains and
oceans that remain frozen most of the year. Visit
remote towns and meet local Inuit who make up 84
percent of the population of Nunavut, "our land" in
Inuktitut, and experience their culture in this unique
and little-known territory—Canada's newest.
39,710
Iqaluit
www.destinationnunavut.ca
Flights to Nunavut depart from Ottawa,
Montréal, Edmonton, Winnipeg,
Churchill and Yellowknife
Seasonally from Toronto
The size of Western Europe, Nunavut
is the biggest and least populated of
Canada's provinces and territories,
2,093,190 sq. km (808,185 sq. mi.) covering
one-fifth of the country's total area and
reaching almost to the North Pole. With a
population that could fit into an average
sports stadium, it means there is one
statistically solitary person for every
52.7 sq. km (20.35 sq. mi.).
TRADITIONS LIVE ON
While Nunavut's capital of Iqaluit is an
increasingly modern frontier town with a
population of 7,740, the 24 other communi-
ties scattered across the territory are much
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