Most trips to Baffin Island begin with an airline flight from Ottawa or Montreal to Iqaluit, the largest settlement and commercial center of Baffin Island. This is a photo of the terminal building at the Iqaluit airport.
Auyuittuq National Park Photos
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Most trips to Baffin Island begin with an airline flight from Ottawa or Montreal to Iqaluit, the largest settlement and commercial center of Baffin Island. This is a photo of the terminal building at the Iqaluit airport. |
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Auyuittuq National Park is approximately 300 km north of Iqaluit via commuter plane. This ariel view from a Twin Otter shows the barren landscape of the northern Hall Peninsula, and Cumberland Sound. Note the lingering iceberg in the upper left. | ||
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All trips to Auyuittuq begin in the Inuit village of Pangnirtung. | ||
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Low tide on Pangnirtung Fjord just outside of the town. | ||
| Low Tide | |||
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Local Inuit fishermen provide transportation for the 31 km boat trip to the head of Pangnirtung Fjord, and the beginning of Auyuittuq National Park at the Parks Canada Warden station at Overlord shown here. | ||
| Entering Auyuittuq | |||
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Beginning our hike into Pangnirtung Pass. The 1st day covers mainly open gravel flats in a broad glacial valley. | ||
| Hiking Pangnirtung Pass | |||
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Our first nights camp was in the open valley. Frequent crashes could be heard as summer thawing caused rock falls on the surrounding cliffs. | ||
| First Camp | |||
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View above our 1st camp looking southwest over the heavily braided Weasel River., | ||
| Looking SW over first camp | |||
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Yours truly at the cairn marking the Arctic Circle at 66 degrees 33 minutes North Latitude. The hiking route is marked in many places by similar traditional Inuit "Inukshuks", or cairns built in the shape of a person. | ||
| Arctic Circle crossing | |||
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This is the first of several terminal moraines left by various advances and retreats of glaciers in Pangnirtung Pass. The route required climbing up and over them just as the Weasel River had cut through them. | ||
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Parks Canada has provides these emergency shelters at approximately one day hiking intervals. | ||