Auyuittuq National Park
A park of granite mountains, glaciers and glacial valleys on Baffin Island, cut by the Akshayuk Pass, with Mount Thor’s cliff and the Arctic Circle.
Nunavut · Canada
In the destination Baffin Island (Canada): Pangnirtung; Pond Inlet.
In the photo: Houses of Pangnirtung in winter.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
An Inuit community in a fjord on Baffin Island, near the Arctic Circle, surrounded by mountains. It is the gateway to Auyuittuq National Park and known for the tapestries and carvings by its artists. By boat you can reach an old whaling station in the Cumberland Strait.
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The local experience
A park of granite mountains, glaciers and glacial valleys on Baffin Island, cut by the Akshayuk Pass, with Mount Thor’s cliff and the Arctic Circle.
An island in the Cumberland Strait with remains of a 19th-century whaling station, such as blubber boilers and storehouse foundations, reached by boat from Pangnirtung.