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Between June and October 2008, 33,378 people visited Nunavut by air and sea, according to the territory's Department of Economic Development and Transportation. This is an almost 16 percent increase on the number of people who visited Nunavut by air and sea during the same period in 2006, which was 28,802 people.
Auyuittuq National Park is located on the Cumberland Peninsula of Baffin Island in Nunavut.The park is located within the Arctic Circle.The park covers 21,470 square kilometres (8,290 sq mi) [3] [note 1] and is located partially within the Penny Highlands and contains the 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) Penny Ice Cap.
Iqalugaarjuup Nunanga Territorial Park ("the land around the river of littles fishes," referring to the Arctic grayling that frequent the Meliadine River) is a park located 8–10 km (5.0–6.2 mi) northwest of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. The park lies in a valley that straddles the Meliadine River.
Kangiqtualuk Uqquqti (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᖅᑐᐊᓗᒃ ᐅᖅᑯᖅᑎ [1]) formerly Sam Ford Fiord [2] is an isolated, elongated Arctic fjord on Baffin Island's northeastern coast in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. [3] The Inuit settlement of Pond Inlet is 320 km (200 mi) to the northwest and Clyde River is 80 km (50 mi ...
This article is a list of historic places in the territory of Nunavut entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. In Canada, historic places are formally recognized for their heritage value by a federal , provincial, territorial or municipal authority.
Nunavut Parks & Special Places, Government of Nunavut Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park (known as Iqaluit Kuunga(a) in Inuktitut , [ 2 ] ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᑰᖓ ᒥᕐᖑᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᒃ in Inuktitut syllabics [ 3 ] ) is a Canadian territorial park on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut .
Kugaaruk (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ [6] [7] Kuugaarjuk [pronunciation?] or ᑰᒑᕐᕈᒃ Kuugaarruk; [pronunciation?] English: "little stream") (also called Arviligjuaqy, [pronunciation?] meaning "the great bowhead whale habitat" [8]), formerly known as Pelly Bay until 3 December 1999, [6] is located on the shore of Pelly Bay, just off the Gulf of Boothia, Simpson Peninsula ...
Sirmilik National Park (/ ˈ s ɜːr m əl ɪ k /; Inuktitut: "the place of glaciers" [3]) is a national park located in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada, established in 1999. [4] [5] [6] 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, Kangiqłuruluk, and Baffin Island's Borden Peninsula.