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Article by James H. Marsh Updated by Erin James-abra. Baffin Island, Nunavut, , km2, 1, km long and — km wide, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Iqaluit is near a traditional South Baffin Inuit fishing camp, where a summer camp was established each year to fish photo by Barbara Brundege and Eugene Fisher.
Visitors to Iqaluit can learn about local Inuit history, culture and arts at the Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre's museum and the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum. Inuit artisans offer soapstone carvings, jewelry, hand-sewn clothing, art prints and more in souvenir stores and galleries. During spring and summer, several festivals showcase Inuit artists, musicians and other performers from all over Nunavut.
The Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association hosts an annual summer festival; the Alianait Arts Festival is a summer tradition; and, in April, the Toonik Tyme Festival features traditional Inuit arts, cuisine and games, including igloo-building and seal-skinning contests. Two of Canada's largest national parks are on Baffin Island: Auyuittuq National Park "the land that never melts" on the island's eastern Cumberland Peninsula and Sirmilik National Park "place of glaciers" covering the island's northwest, along with nearby islands and bays.
Both feature glacier-carved fjords, vast stretches of tundra, dramatic mountain ranges and remote Inuit villages. Visitation is limited to an early season from March to May, when skiing, dog-sledding and snowmobiling adventures are possible, and a late season starting in June or July, when ice melt opens up the landscapes for boating and hiking.
Highlights of Auyuittuq include the Akshayuk Pass, a mile traditional Inuit travel corridor; Mount Thor, which has the tallest vertical drop of any mountain in the world; and a one- or two-day hiking route to the Arctic Circle.
Sirmilik's icy waterways, when accessible, offer incredible opportunities for polar bear safaris, sea kayaking for experts only and boat trips to see icebergs and breaching belugas and narwhals. Baffin Island also has a number of territorial parks. It has facilities for camping, and visitors can fish and spot wildlife amid a tundra landscape blanketed by seasonal wildflowers and berries.
The park also features ancient Thule ruins. Camping on the coast in safari-style tents, enjoying gourmet meals and taking part in activities such as polar bear and bowhead whale watching, surrounded by walled fjords and islands, sometimes thousands of feet high on each side. A comfortable mobile camp from which you can track polar bears, swim with narwhal and explore the Canadian Arctic wilderness.
Call Us Contact Us. Highlights and main attractions of Baffin Island A spectacularly remote land of dramatic scenery, Baffin Island features rugged mountains contrasting the flattest lowlands, and coasts that start with sheer, icy cliff drops. Inflatable kayaks can be deployed at any time if you fancy paddling through the clear waters and enjoying the outstanding ambience of the Arctic.
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