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Special Events
APRIL
• HAMLET DAY, MOST COMMUNITIES
• NATTIQ FROLICS, KUGLUKTUK
• NUNAVUT DRUM DANCE FESTIVAL,
CAMBRIDGE BAY
• TOONIK TYME, IQALUIT
APRIL – MAY
• OMINGMAK FROLICS, CAMBRIDGE BAY
• PAKALLAK TYME, RANKIN INLET
JUNE – JULY
• ALIANAIT ARTS FESTIVAL, IQALUIT
JULY
• CANADA DAY, TERRITORY-WIDE
ON THE FLOE EDGE • DESTINATION CANADA/BLACK FEATHER THE WILDERNESS ADVENTURE CO./STEVE RUSKAY
• NUNAVUT DAY, TERRITORY-WIDE
AUGUST
• NUNAVUT ARTS FESTIVAL, CAMBRIDGE BAY across the frozen tundra and sea ice by Thelon River on the Barren Lands. Rock
snowmobile, on cross-country skis and via climb granite peaks in Auyuittuq National
www.nunavuttourism.com dogsled. Choose a hamlet hotel base, camp Park, backcountry ski amid Clyde River’s
on the tundra with an outfi tter, or enjoy the sheer rock walls, or paddle Alexandra Fjord
bowhead and beluga whales as well as comfort of luxury wilderness lodges and hike in Quttinirpaaq National Park on
walrus, seals and polar bears. Many of these including Arctic Watch, Arctic Haven and Ellesmere Island (www.blackfeather.com ).
activities can be experienced on day trips Bathurst Inlet Lodge (www.weberarctic.
from communities. Sport fi shing is com; www.bathurstarctic.com ). HERITAGE AND CULTURE
popular, with fi shing lodges and camps More adventurous travellers can canoe Throughout Nunavut are sites once used
accessible by boat and fl oat planes. In the Soper River in Katannilik Territorial by nomadic Inuit. Stone rings marking the
winter, there is ice fi shing and travelling Park on Southern Baffi n Island or the locations of skin tents used in summers
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