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• Take a trip across the frozen tundra by dog sled with an Inuit guide in Iqaluit.
• Bed down for a night in a bona fide igloo.
• Go with the floe: wildlife is particularly abundant in summer at the ‘floe edge', where the land ice meets the sea. Plankton, shrimp and fish attract seals, whales and polar bears, making for excellent wildlife viewing. Good wildlife-spotting locations include Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay.
• See musk ox or tundra swans in the Northwest Passage or take a boat trip to Coats Island in Hudson Bay to see walrus and polar bears. Nunavut's herd of 40,000 caribou is the world's largest. Many species roam the tundra in Kivalliq's Thelon Game Sanctuary.
• Learn about Nunavut's fauna, flora, culture and history by going on one of the territory's nature and cultural tours.
• Bring your camera. Dramatic scenery and seasonal variations in light and temperature provide rewarding conditions for photography. One of the best times is during the sunlit nights (between 2000 and 0300 in spring and summer), when shadows are long and colours and textures particularly well defined.
• Go on an Inuit art tour, which offer visitors an opportunity to learn about native carving, tool-fashioning, jewellery-crafting and hat-making (out of Quivviuq wool collected from the land).
• Immerse yourself in utter wilderness and hike around amazing destinations such as Auyuittuq National Park's mountains, the willow forest of Katannilik Park, wildlife-rich North Ellesmere National Park, the Sirmilik National Park surrounding the Pond Inlet community, or the trail from Kugluktuk (Coppermine) to the Bloody Falls.
• Enjoy some fishing: catch of the day includes Arctic char and lake trout. Enthusiasts should note that catch-and-release is practised in all areas and that possession limits are based on regular and seasonal evaluation of stock.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Bed down for a night in a bona fide igloo.
• Go with the floe: wildlife is particularly abundant in summer at the ‘floe edge', where the land ice meets the sea. Plankton, shrimp and fish attract seals, whales and polar bears, making for excellent wildlife viewing. Good wildlife-spotting locations include Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay.
• See musk ox or tundra swans in the Northwest Passage or take a boat trip to Coats Island in Hudson Bay to see walrus and polar bears. Nunavut's herd of 40,000 caribou is the world's largest. Many species roam the tundra in Kivalliq's Thelon Game Sanctuary.
• Learn about Nunavut's fauna, flora, culture and history by going on one of the territory's nature and cultural tours.
• Bring your camera. Dramatic scenery and seasonal variations in light and temperature provide rewarding conditions for photography. One of the best times is during the sunlit nights (between 2000 and 0300 in spring and summer), when shadows are long and colours and textures particularly well defined.
• Go on an Inuit art tour, which offer visitors an opportunity to learn about native carving, tool-fashioning, jewellery-crafting and hat-making (out of Quivviuq wool collected from the land).
• Immerse yourself in utter wilderness and hike around amazing destinations such as Auyuittuq National Park's mountains, the willow forest of Katannilik Park, wildlife-rich North Ellesmere National Park, the Sirmilik National Park surrounding the Pond Inlet community, or the trail from Kugluktuk (Coppermine) to the Bloody Falls.
• Enjoy some fishing: catch of the day includes Arctic char and lake trout. Enthusiasts should note that catch-and-release is practised in all areas and that possession limits are based on regular and seasonal evaluation of stock.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.