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Geologic Formation Attractions In Northwest Territories

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The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately 1,144,000 km2 and a 2011 population of 41,462, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44,291. Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission. The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-Western Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed on April 1, 1999, when the territory was subdivided to create Nunavut to the east, via the Nunavut Act and the N...
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Geologic Formation Attractions In Northwest Territories

  • 1. Pingo Canadian Landmark Tuktoyaktuk
    A pingo, also called a hydrolaccolith or a bulgunniakh, is a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres in height and up to 600 m in diameter. The term originated as the Inuvialuktun word for a small hill. The plural form is pingos. The term is also used for depressions, often water filled, formed by the melting of ice at the end of the last glaciation.A pingo is a periglacial landform, which is defined as a nonglacial landform or process linked to colder climates. Periglacial suggests an environment located on the margin of past glaciers. However, freeze and thaw cycles influence landscapes outside areas of past glaciation. Therefore, periglacial environments are anywhere that freezing and thawing modify the landscape in a significant manne...
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  • 2. Alexandra Falls Territorial Park Day Use Area Enterprise
    The Alexandra Falls is a 32 m waterfall located on the Hay River in the Northwest Territories. The falls, the third highest in the NWT, form part of the Twin Falls Gorge Territorial Park and has its own day use area with a 3 km trail to the main campsite at Louise Falls, the second of the Twin Falls. Situated on the Mackenzie Highway the falls are about 10 km southwest of Enterprise and 43 km southwest of Hay River.Both Ed Lucero and Tyler Bradt, whitewater kayakers, have successfully gone over the falls in kayaks. Traditional Dene lore says that the two falls are two spirits, Grandmother and Grandfather, who protect the area.
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