NU- Nunavut ON- Ontario QC- Quebec SK- Saskatchewan YT- Yukon XX- province not specified, or is somewhere in the United States, or somewhere in some other known country YY- somewhere outside Canada or the United States, but other than that, country is unknown ...
Canada's biggest bay is Hudson Bay which was discovered in 1610 by English explorer Henry Hudson. Hudson Bay is located in Eastern Canada and is frozen from about mid December and mid June every year. Nunavut territory in Northern Canada was only created in 1999 and is home to the Inuit p...
In Nunavut, Canada, the number plate for cars, motorcycles, and snowmobiles are in the shape of a polar bear. There was a bear cub exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915 named Winnipeg. This bear inspired a A.A. Milne to write aboutWinnie-the-Poohafter his son Christopher Robin...
Northeast coast of Baffin Island north of Community of Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is Alert, Nunavut. While the settlement itself is permanent, the personnel is entirely rotating. The settlement was named for the HMS Alert, and is home to a n...
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Nunavut is Canada's least populated, most northern, and largest territory. The Nunavut Act in 1999 established it as a Canadian territory as opposed to being part of the Northwest Territories as it had previously been. Nunavut encompasses most of the Arctic Archipelago, Hudson Bay's islands, Un...
Since there is no permanent area of residence in the southern parts of the Antarctic Circle, there are only a limited number of regions that experience the midnight sun – Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories of Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Finland, Russia and Alaska in the...
Peary caribou –The smallest of the North American caribou, these reindeer relatives live in the High Arctic Island of Nunavut as well as the Northwest Territories of Canada. Diet Classified as herbivores, reindeer live on diets of plants and vegetation. What do reindeer eat? Reindeer eat liche...
Canada is a country in North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Click to see the fact fil
They are extremely difficult to see or study, as no other whales live so far north, in the most remote and coldest parts of the ocean. They took National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen, (who grew up in the arctic Nunavut), 10 years of trying different techniques to finally track them...