Trail Canada Guide to Nunavut

Canada's Arctic Inuit Territory

Nunavut is the Inuktitut word for "our land" and Canada 's most recently formed territory ( 1st April 1999 ). With less than 30,000 residents in an area larger than Mexico , Nunavut is one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world. Stretching right up to the North Pole, this Canadian territory and home to the extraordinary Inuit people is an arctic tundra wilderness made up of hundreds of islands connected only by ice land bridges.

Iqaluit is the governing town of the province. Temperatures rarely rise above freezing and in summer 8 degrees is the highest average temperature. With a population of just 4000 Iqaluit is the smallest city in Canada and also one of the hardest to access any time of the year. Located on Baffin Island , air is the only realistic way to gain entry to this expensive and extraordinary place.

Guide to Nunavut