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wisdom that shape the government, business, and day-to-day life of the territory. The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit on Baffin Island.
    The Far North can be beautiful one moment under the pink summer sun, and in the next instant it can be terrifying as the ice cracks in a storm and the noise can be heard over a great distance. The photograph was taken at the edge of a crack or lead in the ice between Baffin Island (in the distance) and Bylot Island, near Pond Inlet.
    WEB SITES
    Baffin Island:
www.baffinisland.ca
    Government of Nunavut:
www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut
    Nunavut Parks:
www.nunavutparks.com
    Virtual Museum (Inuit History, Art, and Tradition):
www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Teacher/inuit_history.html
5. BONAVENTURE ISLAND, QUEBEC
    Bonaventure Island is just off the Gaspé Peninsula shore in Quebec. The island is home to the world’s second-largest northern gannet breeding colony (more than 200,000 birds). Since 1972 Bonaventure has been part of a provincial park that also includes the fabled Percé Rock. The din of the gannets is deafening, the sight unbelievable, and the smell awful.
    WEB SITES
    Gaspé Peninsula:
www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html
    New England Seabirds:
www.neseabirds.com/gaspe.htm
    and
http://membres.lycos.fr/revasse/wildlife.html
6. CAPE CHURCHILL, MANITOBA
    Cape Churchill is near Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay. The world’s largest concentration of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) is found here. They come to wait for the water to freeze so they can go out hunting ring seals, their favourite food. Adult polar bears are big. Males can weigh 650 kilograms (1,430 pounds); females 350 kilograms (770 pounds).
    WEB SITES
    Heritage Canada:
www.heritagecanada.org
/eng/news/archived/churchill_e.pdf
    Polar Bears Alive:
www.polarbearsalive.org
    Wildlife Watcher:
http://wildlifewatcher.com/
wc/church.phtml
    World Wildlife Fund (Polar Bear Central):
www.wwfcanada.org/en/
PolarBearCentral/default.asp
7.L’ANSE AUX MEADOWS, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
    L’Anse aux Meadows, home to the only proven Viking settlement in North America, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. UNESCO is a United Nations organization responsible for promoting collaboration among countries through education, science, culture, and communication. As of mid-2004, there were 754 properties on the World Heritage List (582 cultural, 149 natural, and twenty-three mixed). Eleven World Heritage Sites are in Canada. Besides L’Anse aux Meadows, they include the Haida village of Ninstints on Anthony Island in British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii); Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta; Quebec City; Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Nahanni National Park, Northwest Territories; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta; Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta/Northwest Territories; Canada’s Rocky Mountain parks; Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland; and Miguasha Provincial Park, Quebec.
    It is believed that just over 1,000 years ago Vikings landed at L’Anse aux Meadows and founded a temporary settlement, centuries before the coming of Christopher Columbus to the New World. As early as 1914, Newfoundlander William Munn suggested L’Anse aux Meadows might be the location of Vinland, one of the names Vikings gave in their sagas to the places they visited in North America. However, excavations didn’t begin until after 1960 when the Norwegian explorer and writer Helge Ingstad searched the area. Helge’s wife, archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, eventually discovered the remains of sod dwellings and workshops. Viking artifacts such as a bronze pin, a spindle whorl, needlework tools, and broken wood objects have also been unearthed at the site.Today, during the summer, a visitor centre features guides dressed as Vikings of the time.
    WEB SITES
    Canada History:
www.canadahistory.com/sections
/eras/Firstcontact/lanxameadows.htm
    Parks