Northern Canada
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Northern Canada, colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territorie
Downtown Whitehorse, Yukon (the territories’ largest city) seen from the east side of the Yukon River
Outside Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sheep Slot Rapids on the Firth River in Yukon's Ivvavik National Park
A typical tundra landscape in Nunavut.
Herschel Island
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Herschel Island is an island in the Beaufort Sea, which lies 5 km off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part. Part of the Arctic Archipelago, it is Yukon's only large off
The whaling settlement at Pauline Cove. The Yukon mainland is visible in the background.
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, first North-West Mounted Police officer assigned to Herschel Island (1903)
NASA Landsat pseudocolour photo of Herschel Island