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Iqaluit

Iqaluit is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, and its only city. Until 1987 the city was known as Frobisher Bay, after the large bay on the coast of which the city is situated. In 1999, Iqaluit became the capital of Nunavut after the division of the Northwest Territories into two separate territories. Before this event Iqaluit was an insignificant city and not well-known outside of the Canadian Arctic or Canada, with population and economic growth highly limited. This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensively imported supplies, as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road, rail, or even ship connections to the rest of Canada. The city also possesses a polar climate, influenced by the cold, deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Island; this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, even though the city is well south of the Arctic Circle). The city is closer to Greenland's capital, Nuuk than it is to the capital of the Northwest Territories, the much-larger northern city of Yellowknife. As of the 2011 census the population was 6,699, an increase of 8.3 per cent from the 2006 census. Iqaluit has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called Iqalummiut .

Mount Thor

Mount Thor, officially gazetted as Thor Peak, is a mountain with an elevation of 1,675 metres located in Auyuittuq National Park, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The mountain is located 46 km northeast of Pangnirtung and features Earths greatest vertical drop of 1,250 m, with the cliff overhanging at an average angle of 15 degrees from vertical. Despite its remoteness, this feature makes the mountain a popular rock climbing site. Camping is allowed, with the only official site being at the entrance to the Akshayuk Valley near Overlord Peak. The mountain was named for Thor, the Norse thunder god.

Wilberforce Falls

Wilberforce Falls is an almost 60 m tall waterfall located in the Wilberforce Gorge of the Hood River in Nunavut, Canada. The falls is one of the few major waterfalls in the world north of the Arctic Circle. The falls were named for William Wilberforce, an English politician and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

Penny Ice Cap

The Penny Ice Cap is a 6,000 km2 ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fiords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the last ice age. During the mid-1990s, Canadian researchers studied the glaciers patterns of freezing and thawing over centuries by drilling ice core samples. The ice cap has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades related to rising summer and winter air temperatures across the eastern Arctic. The ice cap is named after Captain William Penny, a Whaling captain from Aberdeen in Scotland who pioneered over-wintering with native Inuit at Cumberland Sound in order to be able to start whaling much earlier in the season. He was also engaged by Lady Franklin to search for her husband John, lost with all souls in the search for the North West Passage.

Aberdeen Lake

Aberdeen Lake is a large, irregularly-shaped lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the Canadian Shield. The lake measures nearly 90 kilometres east-west with a peninsula in the center separating the lake into almost two halves which extend nearly 30 km north-south. The Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is to the west. The Thelon River is the lakes primary inflow and outflow. Beverly Lake and Schultz Lake are nearby.

Dubawnt Lake

Dubawnt Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is 3,630 km2 in size and has several islands. It is about 200 miles north of the point where Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nunavut come together, about 300 miles west of Hudson Bay and about 250 miles south of the arctic circle. To the northwest is the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. Its main inlet and outlet is the north-flowing Dubawnt River which joins the Thelon River at Beverly Lake . The Thelon flows east to Hudson Bay at Chesterfield Inlet. It is on the line of contact between the Sayisi Dene band of Eastern Caribou-Eater Chipewyan people and the Harvaqtuurmiut and Ihalmiut bands of Caribou Inuit. The first European to reach the lake was Samuel Hearne in 1770, but it remained largely unknown to outsiders until it was explored by Joseph Tyrrell in 1893. There are no permanent settlements but there are fly-in fish camps where large lake trout can be caught during the 2-month ice-free season.

Ennadai Lake

Ennadai Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is 52 mi long, and 3 to 14 mi wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River. A 615 km section of the Kazan River from the outlet of Ennadai Lake to Baker Lake, was designated as a part of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1990. It is in northern Canadas Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region of present-day Nunavut.

Garry Lake

Garry Lake is a lake in sub-Arctic Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. As a portion of the Back River waterway, Garry Lake originates directly east of Lake Pelly and drains to the east by the Back River. A set of rapids separate Buliard Lake from Garry Lake. Two other sets of rapids separate Garry Lakes three sections which are also differentiated by elevation. Garry Lakes are isolated from nearby communities.

Lake Hazen

Lake Hazen is often called the northernmost lake of Canada, in the northern part of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, but detailed maps show several smaller lakes up to more than 100 km farther north on Canadas northernmost island. Turnabout Lake is immediately northeast of the northern end of Hazen lake. Still further north are the Upper and Lower Dumbell Lakes, with Upper Dumbell Lake 5.2 km southwest of Alert, Canadas northernmost settlement on the coast of Lincoln Sea, Arctic Ocean. The northeastern end of Lake Hazen is 118 km southwest of Alert. Lake Hazen is the worlds largest lake north of the Arctic Circle by volume. By surface area, it is third largest, after Lake Taymyr in Russia and Lake Inari in Finland. Lake Hazen is 74 km long and up to 12 km wide, with an area of 537.5 km2 . It stretches in a southwest-northeast direction from 81°40′N 72°58′W to 81°56′N 68°55′W. The lake is up to 269 m deep and has an estimated volume of 51.4 km3. The shoreline is 185 km long and 158 m above sea level. It has several islands, the largest of them being Johns Island, which is 7 km long and less than 1 km wide, also extending in a southwest-northeast direction like the lake itself. Other islands include Gatter Island, Clay Island, Whisler Island, and Dyas Island . The lake is covered by ice about ten months a year. It is fed by glaciers from the surrounding Eureka Uplands above sea level), most importantly Henrietta Nesmith and the Gilmour Glaciers, and drained by 15 km long Ruggles River which flows into Chandler Fjord on the northern east coast of Ellesmere Land. The lake is flanked by the Arctic Cordillera. The area around the lake is a thermal oasis within a polar desert, with summer temperatures up to 20 °C . The lake is part of Quttinirpaaq National Park. Artifacts of Thule civilization were discovered near Lake Hazen in 2004. Thule preceded the Inuit. In 1882, Augustus Greely discovered the lake during his expedition 1881-1883. Greelys base camp for the exploration was Fort Conger at the northeastern shore of Ellesmere Island, at 81°44′N 64°44′W, which was established as part of the first International Polar Year. Greely named the lake in honor of general William Babcock Hazen, who had organized the expedition. Camp Hazen was established on the northern shore of the lake in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year, and has been used by various scientific parties since then. Lake Hazen is populated by a larger and a smaller morphotype of Arctic char. Recent studies indicate they are not anadromous, though Inuit traditional knowledge states otherwise.

Nettilling Lake

Nettilling Lake is a cold freshwater lake located toward the south end of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is also the worlds largest lake on an island, with an area of 5,542 km2 and a maximum length of 123 km. The lake is in the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak about 280 km northwest of Iqaluit. The Arctic Circle crosses the lake. The lakes name is of Inuktitut origin, coming from the word for the adult ringed seal . Franz Boas explored its southern shore in 1883. Nettilling is the largest lake in Nunavut. It is fed by the second largest lake on Baffin Island, Amadjuak Lake and several other smaller lakes and streams. It empties west via the very shallow Koukdjuak River into Foxe Basin. The eastern half has many small islands and the western half is deeper with no islands. The lake is frozen for most of the year. Ringed Seals live in the lake and only three species of fish have been recorded there: the Arctic char as well as the ninespine and threespine stickleback. The tundra around the lake and south to Amadjuak Lake is important for Barren-ground Caribou feeding and calving. Nettilling Lake is the eleventh largest in Canada, being one of the largest lakes entirely within Canada.

Barbeau Peak

Barbeau Peak is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. Located on Ellesmere Island within Quttinirpaaq National Park, it is the highest mountain in Nunavut and the Canadian Arctic. The mountain was named in 1969 for Dr. Marius Barbeau , a Canadian anthropologist whose research into First Nations and Inuit cultures gained him international acclaim. Barbeau Peak is characterized by deep and long crevasses, razor thin ridges and highly variable and volatile weather. Barbeau Peak is the highest mountain within the British Empire Range as well as the Arctic Cordillera, as well as in all of eastern North America. Barbeau Peak was first climbed on 7 June 1967 by British geologist/glaciologist Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith as part of a joint Defence Research Board/Royal Air Force field party. The party both named the peak and determined its height. The second ascent was by an eight man American team in June 1982 via the north ridge. Subsequent ascents have been made in 1992, 1998, 2000 and 2002, though as of 2006 only seven successful summits have been attained.

Mount Odin

Mount Odin is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Auyuittuq National Park along the Akshayuk Pass, 46 km north of Pangnirtung and south of Mount Asgard. Mount Odin is the highest mountain on Baffin Island. Mount Odin is the highest mountain within the Baffin Mountains as well as the fifth highest in the Arctic Cordillera. It has a topographic prominence of 2,147 m , greater than any other mountain within the Baffin Mountains and on Baffin Island, making Odin the third highest mountain in Nunavut by topographic prominence. Comparing absolute peaks, Mount Odin is the fifth highest in Nunavut. The higher points in Nunavut are: Barbeau Peak on Ellesmere Island , two unnamed peaks on Ellesmere Island, and Outlook Peak on Axel Heiberg Island, which at 2210 m is just 63 m higher than Mount Odin. The mountain is named after Odin, the chief of the gods in Norse mythology and Norse paganism.

Qiajivik Mountain

Qiajivik Mountain is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. Located in northeastern Baffin Island, it is part of the Baffin Mountains. At 1,965 m Qiajivik is the highest mountain in northern Baffin Island and with a topographic prominence of 1,787 m it is one of Canada's 142 ultra prominent peaks.

Auyuittuq National Park

Auyuittuq National Park is a national park located on Baffin Islands Cumberland Peninsula, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, the largest political subdivision of Canada. It features many terrains of Arctic wilderness, such as fjords, glaciers, and ice fields. Although Auyuittuq was established in 1976 as a national park reserve, it was upgraded to a full national park in 2000. Little vegetation can be found in Auyuittuq Park, although the plants found there range from flowers such as Mountain Avens, Campion, Papaver, and Saxifrage to shrubs like Dwarf Birch, Arctic Willow, and heather. Many of the plants in Auyuittuq Park grow in clumps to create their own warmer "microclimate" to survive the harsh Arctic conditions. Because of the exceptionally low vegetation supply, wildlife is very scarce. There are only 12 species of mammals that live in Auyuittuq Park including Lemmings, Arctic Hare, and Ermine to Polar Bear, Arctic Fox, and some Barren-ground Caribou. The nearest towns are Qikiqtarjuaq and Pangnirtung. Visitors wishing to enter the park are required by Parks Canada to register at the park office in Pangnirtung or Qikiqtarjuaq, and attend an orientation session. Park user fees apply. The most common backpacking route in the park is known as Akshayuk Pass, and follows the Weasel and Owl Rivers via Summit Lake. In 2008, heavy rain and warm weather caused Summit Lake to burst through its banks, flooding the Weasel River and washing away the Windy Lake bridge . As a result, the hiking routes in the pass are limited to either side of the Weasel River. Well known peaks include Mount Asgard with an 800 m face, and Mount Thor with a 1,250 m, 105° face.

Sirmilik National Park

Sirmilik National Park is a protected area located in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada, established in 2001. Situated within the Arctic Cordillera, the park is composed of three areas: most of Bylot Island with the exception for a few areas that are Inuit-owned lands, Oliver Sound, and Baffin Islands Borden Peninsula. Much of the park is bordered by water. Geographically, it is representative of the Northern Eastern Arctic Lowlands Natural Region as well as parts of the Lancaster Sound Marine Region. Sirmilik is part of the National parks of Canada.

Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park is a national park in Nunavut, Canada. It covers 20,885 square kilometres of tundra and coastal mudflats south of the Arctic Circle and the hamlet of Repulse Bay, from Hudson Bays Roes Welcome Sound towards the western Barrenlands and the source of Brown River. The park surrounds Wager Bay, a 100 kilometres long inlet on the Hudson Bay. Although the smallest of Nunavuts four national parks, it is the sixth largest in Canada. Its name relates to steatite found there: Ukkusiksalik means "where there is material for the stone pot" . In addition to a reversing waterfall and 500 archeological sites, including an old Hudsons Bay Company trading post, the region is home to such species as polar bears, grizzly bears, Arctic wolf, caribou, seals and peregrine falcons. Vegetation in the park is typical low tundra, with dwarf birch, willow and mountain avens. Scattered patches of boreal forest can be encountered in river valleys. The park is uninhabited now, but the Inuit lived there from 11th century to the 1960s. Remains of fox traps, tent rings, and food caches have been discovered in the area. The Hudsons Bay Company had an operating trading post in the area from 1925 to 1947. The park was created on August 23, 2003, becoming Canadas 41st national park, and the fourth in Nunavut. It can be reached from the nearest communities of Baker Lake or Repulse Bay by plane or boat.

Alert

Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 kilometres from the North Pole. Its permanent population was reported as zero in the 2011 census, but military and scientific personnel on rotation were present. It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km east of the present station, off what is now Cape Sheridan, in 1875–1876. Alert has many temporary inhabitants as it hosts a military signals intelligence radio receiving facility at Canadian Forces Station Alert , as well as a co-located Environment Canada weather station, a Global Atmosphere Watch atmosphere monitoring laboratory, and the Alert Airport.

Fort Ross

Fort Ross is an uninhabited former trading post in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Founded in 1937 it was the last trading post to be established by the Hudsons Bay Company. Situated on the Bellot Strait at the southeastern end of Somerset Island, it was operational for only eleven years as the severe ice conditions rendered it uneconomical and difficult to access. This left the island uninhabited. The former store was recently refurbished and strengthened, and is still used as a shelter by Inuit caribou hunters from Taloyoak, and as a refuge for researchers and small boat travellers passing through. Henry Larsen reached it in 1942. In the summer of 2006, CBCs The National visited Fort Ross in their travels on the Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in a special series focused on climate change.

Craig Harbour

Craig Harbour (76°12′N 081°01′W) is an abandoned settlement in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Ellesmere Island, on the north shore of Jones Sound, 55 km (34 mi) southeast of Grise Fiord. In 1922, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment was established at Craig Harbour, named in honour of Dr. John D. Craig, expedition commander. The site was selected as Smith Island protected the harbour from moving pack ice, and the nearby mouth of Jones Sound made the harbour's navigation accessible. The outpost was closed in the 1930s, and re-opened in 1951 at the start of the Cold War.

Isachsen

Isachsen is a remote Arctic research-weather station named after the Norwegian explorer of the Arctic, Gunnar Isachsen. It is located on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island in the Sverdrup Islands, in the territory of Nunavut in Canada. Isachsen Station was established to participate in a joint Canadian-American weather observation program. Isachsen Station operated from April 3, 1948 through September 19, 1978. Regular weather observations began on May 3, 1948. In October 1949, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (tail number 316062) crash landed near the station. No one was injured, but the wreckage has been preserved by the cold weather and dry conditions.

Nanisivik

Nanisivik (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓇᓂᓯᕕᒃ, translation for the place where people find things) was a company town which was built in 1975 to support the lead-zinc mining and mineral processing operations for the Nanisivik Mine, in production between 1976 and 2002. The townsite was located just inland from Strathcona Sound, about 20 km (12 mi) east of the community of Arctic Bay in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. There is a port and dock about 3.7 km (2.3 mi) north of the former mine site which was used for shipping concentrate from the site, and receiving supplies (73°04′08″N 084°32′57″W). It is currently used by the Canadian Coast Guard for training. Nanisivik Airport located 8 NM (15 km; 9.2 mi) south was used as the main airport for Arctic Bay until 2010 when the lengthened Arctic Bay Airport took over. The airport is about 19 km (12 mi) directly southeast of Arctic Bay but the road between them is 32 km (20 mi).

Angikuni Lake

Angikuni Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of several lakes located along the Kazan River; Ennadai Lake is to the south and Yathkyed Lake is to the north.

Nueltin Lake

Nueltin Lake straddles the Manitoba-Nunavut border in Canada. The lake, which has an area of 2,279 km2, is predominantly in Nunavuts Kivalliq Region, and on the Manitoba side there is the Nueltin Lake Airport which serves the fishing lodge. The lake is split into two parts by a set of narrows.

Contwoyto Lake

Contwoyto Lake is a lake in the Kitikmeot Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located near the border with the Northwest Territories. With a total area of 957 km2, it is the territories tenth largest lake. Lupin Mine is located near Contwoyto Lake. The lake is also the terminus of the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road from Tibbitt Lake in the Northwest Territories, Nunavuts only currently existing road access to the rest of Canada. In 2005, there was a proposal put forward to extend the winter road to a possible port at Bathurst Inlet.

Beverly Lake

Beverly Lake is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located north of the Arctic tree line about 150 km northwest of Baker Lake, Nunavut. The western half of the lake is within Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. The Thelon River, at the confluence with the Dubawnt River, empties into the lakes southwestern bank. The Kazan River empties into the Thelon River at Beverly Lakes southeastern bank, between Beverly and Aberdeen Lakes. A delta occurs on the Beverly Lakes southern edge, which includes the Isarurjuaq Peninsula.

Henik Lake

Henik Lake is located in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. The lake is made up of two lakes, North Henik Lake and South Henik Lake with a narrows separating them. Of the two, North Henik Lake is the smaller with an area of 245 km2, while South Henik Lake has an area of 513 km2 .

Yathkyed Lake

Yathkyed Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located between Angikuni Lake and Forde Lake, it is one of several lakes on the Kazan River. Yathkyed lake was named by Sayisi Dene, historical barren-ground caribou hunters of the area. Caribou Inuit artifacts have also been found here.

Amadjuak Lake

Amadjuak Lake is a lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Along with Nettilling Lake, it is located in south-central Baffin Islands Great Plain of the Koukdjuak. It is 154 km south of Burwash Bay. The closest community is Iqaluit.

Upper Dumbell Lake

Upper Dumbell Lake is a lake in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is the northernmost named lake of Canada and of the world. It is located 5.2 km southwest of Alert, Canadas northernmost settlement, on the coast of Lincoln Sea, Arctic Ocean. The lake is roughly circular and 1 km in diameter.

Barrier Inlet

Barrier Inlet is a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region. It lies in western Hudson Strait, forming a wedge into Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula and the western slopes of the Everett Mountains. Reversing Falls lie near the mouth of the inlet. Shaftesbury Inlet is to the northwest, while Balcom Inlet is to the southeast

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Iqaluit

Mount Thor

Wilberforce Falls

Penny Ice Cap

Aberdeen Lake

Dubawnt Lake

Ennadai Lake

Garry Lake

Lake Hazen

Nettilling Lake

Barbeau Peak

Mount Odin

Qiajivik Mountain

Auyuittuq National Park

Sirmilik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park

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Fort Ross

Craig Harbour

Isachsen

Nanisivik

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