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Mar 27, 2023 · Nunavut is a Canadian territory located in the northern part of Canada, in the Continent of North America. It is geographically positioned in the Northern and Western hemispheres of the Earth. About half of Nunavut’s landmass is situated above the Arctic Circle.
Welcome to the youngest territory of Canada, settled over four thousand years ago, recognized as distinctly Canadian in 1999. Nunavummiut are deeply pleased to invite visitors into their lovely home, into one of the largest unspoiled natural paradises on the planet.
Nunavut is a territory in northern Canada which contains Canada's northernmost lands. With only 37,000 inhabitants, Nunavut covers a land area larger than Mexico, divided between mainland North America and an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. As of 2016, almost 85% of the people are part of an indigenous group called the Inuit. They used to be ...
Mainland Nunavut was first populated approximately 4500 years ago by the Pre-Dorset, a diverse Paleo-Eskimo culture that migrated westward from the Bering Strait region, when the region was a geographical connection between Asia and America, called Beringia. [1] .
Nunavut. Picture a treeless, ice-encrusted wilderness lashed by unrelenting weather with a population density that makes Greenland seem claustrophobic. Add polar bears, narwhals, beluga whales and a scattered Inuit population who have successfully mastered a landscape so harsh that foreigners could not colonize it.
May 28, 2020 · Nunavut covers 1,936,113 km 2 of land and 157,077 km 2 of water in Northern Canada, representing 21 per cent of the country’s total area. The territory includes part of the mainland, most of the Arctic Archipelago , and all of the islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay and Ungava Bay . Nunavut is divided by three of Canada’s seven physiographic regions.
Nunavut (Inuktitut: “Our Land”) is the result of Canada’s largest land claim settlement, created to give the Inuit ( see Eskimo), constituting more than four-fifths of Nunavut’s population, a greater voice in Canadian government.
