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Nature 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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Nature 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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  • 3. Fort Simpson Territorial Park Fort Simpson
    Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, located in the Pacific Northwest. Named for Captain George Vancouver, the fort was located on the northern bank of the Columbia River in present-day Vancouver, Washington. The fort was a major center of the regional fur trading. Every year trade goods and supplies from London arrived either via ships sailing to the Pacific Ocean or overland from Hudson Bay via the York Factory Express. Supplies and trade goods were exchanged with a plethora of Indigenous cultures for fur pelts. Furs from Fort Vancouver were often shipped to the Chinese port of Guangzhou where they were traded for Chinese manufactured goods for sale in the United Kingdom. At its pinnacle, Fort Vanc...
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  • 7. Wood Buffalo National Park Northwest Territories
    Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest National Park of Canada at 44,807 km2 . It is located in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming wood bison, currently estimated at more than 5,000. It is one of two known nesting sites of whooping cranes. The park ranges in elevation from 183 m at the Little Buffalo River to 945 m in the Caribou Mountains. The park headquarters is located in Fort Smith, with a smaller satellite office in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. The park contains one of the world's largest fresh water deltas, the Peace-Athabasca Delta, formed by the Peace, Athabasca and Birch Rivers. It is al...
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  • 8. Frame Lake Trail Yellowknife
    Frame Lake is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is an 84-hectare endorheic freshwater body located between the city's downtown section and a larger residential area. The Frame Lake Trail circles it, and city hall and the territorial legislative assembly building are on its shores. Formed by meltwater after the end of the Wisconsin glaciation 20,000 years ago, Frame has been an important part of Yellowknife's history. The Dene in the area used it as a fishing spot before European settlement. In the early years of the city's growth, gold mines nearby dumped tailings in it and sometimes sewage. Later, when the city's New Town, now its downtown section, was surveyed and developed nearby, Frame offered accessible swimming and boating opportunities. However, storm sewers ...
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  • 10. Fred Henne Territorial Park Yellowknife
    Fred Henne Territorial Park is a territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, located on Long Lake near Yellowknife, one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988. It is also listed as a Canadian Protected Area. The Park is a termination point of the Frontier Trail, and the Cameron Falls Trail. The park is named for Fred Henne, a former mayor of Yellowknife.
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