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Kitikmeot
Kivalliq
Baffin

Kitikmeot

You can follow in the footsteps of seagoing explorers who came here in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia. The people of the Kitikmeot have always navigated the Passage in skin boats, schooners and motor vessels.

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Kivalliq

There is so much to do in this nature-lovers paradise. You can whale watch from land or sea as pods of belugas play in the rivers running into the bay. Spot polar bears as they prowl the shore waiting for winter ice to form. Visit caribou calving grounds and huge bird sanctuaries. Everywhere you go the fishing is spectacular. You can hike for hundreds of kilometres along rivers unchanged since the ice age.

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Baffin

In April, experience the Arctic from a qamutik (sled) behind an eager team of dogs. You can tour deep fiords or the tundra feeding grounds of Peary caribou. On some tours, you set up a winter camp, then watch the amazing Aurora Borealis.

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Explore the many destinations that make the Territory of Nunavut unique.

Nunavut is Canada’s largest and newest federal territory and the name Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the regional Inuit language. The territory comprises a major portion of Northern Canada, and most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The capital of the Territory is Iqaluit on Baffin Island, while other communities include the regional centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay.

Nunavut also includes Ellesmere Island to the north, as well as the eastern and southern portions of Victoria Island in the west. Nunavut is both the least populated and the geographically largest of the provinces and territories of Canada.