Top Attractions
6 Must-See Places
Auyuittuq National Park
One of the most remote parks in the world — the Akshayuk Pass trail runs 97 kilometres through an Arctic valley between 2,000-metre granite walls, past glaciers flowing from the Penny Ice Cap, to reach Mount Thor, site of the world's greatest vertical cliff drop at 1,250 metres. Access is via Pangnirtung, a Inuit community at the base of the park fiord.
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Iqaluit
Canada's newest capital city (Nunavut became a territory in 1999) sits on Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island's southern coast, with a small but growing service infrastructure for Arctic visitors. The Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum has the finest collection of contemporary Inuit art accessible to general visitors in the territory.
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Sirmilik National Park
On the northern tip of Baffin Island, Sirmilik protects Bylot Island — one of the most significant seabird nesting areas in North America, with hundreds of thousands of thick-billed murres, northern fulmars, and black-legged kittiwakes on the coastal cliffs. Polar bears, walrus, narwhal and beluga whales are all present in the surrounding waters.
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Midnight Sun & Arctic Light
In June and July, the sun does not set at Nunavut's latitudes — the midnight sun creates a 24-hour day that, once experienced, profoundly alters your sense of time. The quality of Arctic light at midnight, with the sun low on the horizon casting long shadows across tundra and ice, is unlike anything available at southern latitudes.
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Cape Dorset & Inuit Art
Cape Dorset (Kinngait) is the most celebrated community in the history of Inuit art. The Kinngait Studios, established in 1959, helped develop the annual print release program that brought Inuit graphic art to international attention — artists here include some of the most widely collected Indigenous artists in the world. The community of roughly 1,400 people on Dorset Island produces a disproportionate share of Canada's most significant contemporary Inuit art. Visitors can tour the studios and meet artists; the work available for direct purchase is of museum quality and represented in galleries worldwide.
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Pond Inlet & Eclipse Sound
Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik) sits at the northern tip of Baffin Island, across Eclipse Sound from Bylot Island and its extraordinary wildlife reserve. In spring, the frozen Sound becomes a highway for polar bears, narwhals congregate at the ice edge in July, and the views across to the Bylot Island peaks are among the most dramatic in the eastern Arctic. The community offers guided ice travel, Inuit cultural experiences, and access to Sirmilik National Park. This is remote, serious Arctic travel — but for those prepared for it, Pond Inlet is one of the most extraordinary places on the continent.
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