Nunavut     Basic Infomation       Nunavut is a new territory that was once part of the Northwest Territory. On July 9, 1993 thi new territory came to be. The pepole who live in Nunavut are called inuit. They named their territoy Nunavut because it ment our land. Nunavut is shaped something like an a "inukshuk" or a pile of stones stacked to look like a human. Inukshuks were built to guid pepole across the land. The land in Nunavut is burried under ice and snow. Even the sea is frozen. Nunavut makes up to 1/5 of Canada. Nunavut is the biggest territory and province in Canada. To the west of Nunavut lies the Northwest territories. To the east lies Qu'ebec. To the north lies the Alantic Ocean. To the south lies Manitoba. Nunavut is divided into 2/two main regions. The regions are called Artic Island and Artic Mainlands.

Plants and Animals     Nunavut is above the tree line, so that's why no trees grow there. Mostly the tempurtures are 0c or belo. A place called "tundra" is a treeless area and it is frozen solid. On the top layer of Nunavut soil thaws and many plants can grow. Many flowers still grow even though the summer lasts only for 6 weeks. Plants like liches, mosses, grasses, berries, shrubs and flowers. Many tundra plants suvise Nunavut.   There are only a few types of animals in Nunavut. Inuit need animals for food and clothing. Caribou antlers were used for, to carve pices artwork. The fur from aritic foxes and polarbears were used for clothing. The inuit hunt whales such as belugas and narwhales, for a layer of skin and blubber that they eat like candy. They hunt wolly musk oxen for their wool and meat. The barren-ground caribou is the most important animal of all and they are hunted for their meat.   Snowy owls, gyrfalcons and ravensstay at Nunavut all year. Golden plovers and arctic terns come back tothe north each year to raise their young along with many other kinds of birds. Kittiwakes, fulmers and murres nest by the thousands on high cliffs and rocky islands found in the territory of Nunavut.

Important Places   There are only 22,000 pepole living in Nunavut. 80 percent of the pepole are Inuit.Twenty percent non-Inuit who may be of British or European descent. Throughout the territory of Nunavut there are twenty-eight insolated communities. The communities vary in size, for example Iqaluit has 3 552 people while Umingmaktok only has 53 people. Some families choose to live on the land in campus far away from settlements.

 

Pictures of Nunavut

Weather In Nunavut Nunavut has the coldest weather in Canada.The winer in Nunavut lasts about nine monthes and the average temperature is an icy -30oC. During the winter cold winds, fierce blizzards and blowing snow make the winter even colder. During the summer the average temperaure is 9oC. Some areas can get warmer. for example the community of Coppermine in western Nunavut had the highesttemperature in Canada on July 15, 1989. It was 34oC in the shade. Nunavut's nickname is the land of the "Land Of The Midnight Sun". In the summer, the the North Pole tilts toward the sun. The areas in Nunavut that are the closest to the North Polehave sunlight for most of the day - even at midnight. During the winter the North Pole tilts away from the sun and the most northern parts of the territory have almost constant darkness. Nunavut receives rain and snow but it varies from place to place. Some parts receive so little rain that they are dry enough to be called deserts.

By: Kelsie & Jonathan