Added on December 26, 2007 and filed under National Parks, Northwest Territories
Ivvavik, meaning a place for giving birth, a nursery, in Inuvialuktun, the language of the Inuvialuit, is the first national park in Canada to be created as a result of an aboriginal land claim agreement. The park protects a wide portion of the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and occupies the Northern Yukon [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Natural Environments, Northwest Territories
Aulavik, meaning ‘place where people travel’ in Inuvialuktun, protects more than 12,000 sq kms of arctic lowlands on the north end of Banks Island. The massive park encompasses a variety of landscapes from fertile river valleys to polar deserts, buttes and badlands, rolling hills, and bold seacoasts. At the heart of Aulavik is the Thomsen [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Nunavut
Sweeping glaciers and polar sea ice meet jagged mountains in Auyuittuq National Park of Canada. Established in 1976, Auyuittuq – an Inuktitut word meaning “land that never melts” – protects 19,089 sq kms of glacier-scoured terrain. Located in the most eastern Arctic, on southern Baffin Island, the park includes the highest peaks of the Canadian [...]