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At two million square kilometres, Nunavut’s richly textured, stunningly varied landscape is home to some of the world’s most exciting adventure travel.
Hiking
Dotted with precariously poised glacial erratics, the rocky tundra beckons with challenging multi-week hikes, as with Auyuittuq National Park or Bylot Island and Sirmilik National Park. Or try day-long adventures in and around communities, like Gjoa Haven and the nearby storied Northwest Passage.
Climbing
Baffin Island has dramatic mountain ranges for the experienced climber, with big wall Grade VI aid routes on summits throughout Auyuittuq National Park, and new free-climbing Grade IV to V routes in the Weasel Valley and the Sam Fjord area near Clyde River.
Fishing
Sport fishers love jigging through four feet of ice in spring for crimson arctic char, casting a line for trophy lake trout in pristine lakes in summer, or dropping a fly onto the water’s undulating surface to coax the feisty arctic grayling from the deep. True luxury is heli-fishing – using a helicopter to access remote, prime fishing water for non-stop fishing action.
Dogsledding and ski-dooing
The endless snow-blanketed tundra and frozen sea is a skidooer’s dream. For an authentic Inuit experience, take a half-day, day-long or overnight dogsled trip, snuggled up in caribou skins on a qamutik (sled), or basking under magical Northern Lights at night.
To the North Pole
A seven- to 10-day trip whisks adventurers to the community of Resolute, where they await their weather ‘go-ahead’ to fly to the Pole itself for a brief touchdown at one of the world’s most elusive destinations.
For more information:
Nunavut Tourism
Web site: www.NunavutTourism.com

Pond Inlet, photo by Bill Mah

Inuksuk, photo by Bill Mah
Inuksuks are stone monuments which guide people on the land and mark sacred and other special places.

Nunavut Aboriginal Tourism

Huit Huit Tours, Cape Dorset

ARTS AND CULTURE
For 4,000 years, Inuit and their ancestors have survived in one of the world’s harshest environments – the treeless Arctic, a polar desert. Faced with few materials, men crafted ingenious tools needed to stay alive, and women cultivated great technical skills to make the clothing necessary to survive temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius and colder. As hunter-gatherers, Inuit have also amassed powerful skills of observation and visual memory – natural skills for an artist. Their rich history can be tracedthrough the thousands of archaeological sites on the land, and through world famous Inuit art. Visitors who take part in art tours will soak up the creative process and learn more. West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset This centre, established in 1961, is internationally renowned for its stonecut printing, lithographic printmaking, etching, and Inuit sculpture from soapstone, bone and marble. The Co-operative has earned Cape Dorset its reputation as the birthplace of Inuit art. The Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts in Pangnirtung See skilled weavers masterfully play their looms at Pangnirtung’s famed tapestry studio. Uqqurmiut also houses a print shop, and each year a new collection showcases riveting artwork depicting legends, whaling, traditional activities and more. Artists of Baker Lake Famous for its appliquéd, embroidered wall hangings made from the heavy wool material called“duffel,” the community is also known for its unique prints and carvings. Archaeological sites Around Igloolik, Repulse Bay, Pond Inlet and most other communities are inuksuit (rock cairns), tent rings, qajaq stands and other archaeological sites that reveal clues about life for the Neoeskimo and Paleoeskimo peoples. For more information: Nunavut Tourism Web site: www.NunavutTourism.com
Akumalik Visitors Centre 1-867-793-2456 Baker Lake	Angmarlik Interpretive Centre 1-867-473-8737 Pangnirtung
Arctic Coast Visitors Centre 867-983-2224 Cambridge Bay	Clyde River Visitors Centre 1-867-924-6034 Clyde River
The Katannilik Park Centre, 1-867-939-2084 Kimmirut E-mail: rjaffray@nunanet.com	Keewatin Regional Visitors Centre 1-867-645-3838 Rankin Inlet. E-mail: silatour@arctic.ca
The Kugluktuk Heritage and Visitors' Centre 1-867-982-3570 Email: kugluktuktourism@qiniq.ca	Mallikjuaq Historic Park Visitors Centre 1-867-897-8996 Cape Dorset
Margaret Aniksak Visitors Centre 1-867-857-2841 Arviat	Nattinnak Centre 1-867-899-8225 Pond Inlet
Parks Canada Interpretive Centre 1-867-473-8828 Pangnirtung E-mail: nunavut_info@pch.gc.ca	Rankin Inlet Visitor Centre 1-867-645-3838
Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre, Iqaluit 1-867-979-4636 Email: nunatour@nuanet.com	Tivi Galleries P.O. Box 175, Kuujjuaq QC J0M 1C0 1-819-964-2465 or 1-800-964-2831, Email: tivi@sympatico.ca
Northern Country Arts
REGIONAL AND COMMUNITY LINKS
Nunavut Tourism Website	Government of Nunavut
Nunavut.com	Nunavut Parks
Nunavut Tourism	Arctic Travel
NV of Akulivik	NV of Aupaluk
Chisasibi	NV of Inukjuak
NV of Ivujivik	NV of Kangiqsualujjuaq
NV of Kangiqsujuaq	NV of Kangirsuk
NV of Kuujjuaq	NV of Kuujjuaraapik
NV of Puvirnituq	NV of Quaqtaq
NV of Salluit	NV of Tasiujaq
NV of Umiujaq	Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami The national Inuit association's web site contains links to all the other major Inuit organizations.
MEDIA
North CBC - Nunavut	Polar News
Nunatsiaq News Nunavut's leading newspaper,	Northern News Services
The Nunavut Handbook A comprehensive guide to the Nunavut territory - community, parks, activities, culture, government and the Inuit language. Available only by purchasing the book.

Ikaluktutuiak (Cambridge Bay),
photo by Bill Mah

Arctic Poppy, photo by Bill Mah

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