Canada
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Nunavut
Spending Canada Day Long Weekend in the Arctic
7/08/2019
While most people in Canada were packing for a beach vacation, camping trip into the woods or just getting ready to celebrate Canada Day in their own city or town, I headed to Nunavut, Canada's largest and the northernmost territory in the Arctic. Yes, I don't like the summer heat in Ontario and yes, it can get pretty cold up there in Nunavut. Jokes aside, I certainly didn't expect to wear a winter jacket, hat and gloves in July. But the trip was well worth it. Canada truly is a very large, beautiful and diverse country. In my first article from the Arctic trip, I want to show you a 30,000 ft view of the vast and untamed Canadian tundra. Tell me what you think about these natural patterns and textures!
The area in Northern Quebec called Nunavik and Nunavut's Baffin Island are separated by a narrow (speaking in the arctic terms) Hudson Strait. The water area has already cleared from ice with tens of thousands of small icebergs floating around.
Do you also see stars?
Finally reaching Baffin Island. The remaining ice makes a nice white contour of a shoreline.
Packs of snow hide in the cracks between rocks.
It's doomed by now and won't probably last for more than a week.
A beautiful mountain range on the Meta Incognita Peninsula with hundreds of bays. Some lakes still remain frozen.
Barren rock line scratched north to south is silent evidence of the glacier retreat at the last Ice Age.
One of my favourite pictures. It reminds me of a topographic map.
Low tide exposes rocks and a colourful sea bed.
The beauty is in simplicity.
The last picture for today and a quick spoiler of what Iqaluit (the capital of Nunavut) looks like from the air.
Stay tuned for more pictures and stories from Nunavut!
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