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A female polar bear and her cub on the shore during the summer months.

Melting pack ice in the Northwest Passage during Spring.

East coast of Somerset Island.

Gravestones in the foreground highlight Nunavut's size and isolation.

A group of narwhals breach the sea's icy surface.

Nunavut Territory, highlighted in red in northern Canada.

A female polar bear and her cub on the shore during the summer months.

Melting pack ice in the Northwest Passage during Spring.

The barren shorline of Fury Beach, flattened out by previous ice sheets.

The desolate coastline of Devon Island on the Northwest Passage In Nunavut.

Towering cliffs in Maxwell Bay with weathered rocks piled up at the cliff's base.

Hardy lichen are one of the few species that can survive Nunavut's tough environment.

Aerial view of the potted Arctic tundra on Cornwallis island.

Aerial few of the frozen ravines of Baffin Island.

The shear coastline of Prince Leopold Island in Nunavut.

Lenticular clouds in Peel Sound, North West Passage, Nunavut.

The barren tundra coastline of northern Canada.

Hardy lichen growing on a rock face in the difficult conditions of Nunavut.

A rock split by the freezing conditions of Nunavut.

The sheer cliffs of the Bellot Strait along the Northwest Passage.

The gale blown sea of the Prince Regent Inlet in the Northwest Passage.

The dramatic coastline of Somerset Island in Nunavut.

The dramatic coastline of Maxwell Bay on Devon Island in Nunavut.

The dramatic coastline of Maxwell Bay on Devon Island in Nunavut.

Grise Fiord, Nunavut. One of Canada's most northerly communities, high in the Arctic Circle. This picture was taken during an expedition to cross between Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay.

1818 - Passage through the ice near Baffin Bay.

Tin cans from Franklin's fateful expedition through the Northwest Passage.

The Northwest Passage from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic.

A ship sails through the Northwest Passage avoiding a cluster of pack-ice.

1896 - Reading deep sea temperatures through the ice.

Isolated village of Holman in Northern Canada.

A Canadian icebreaker through the Northwest Passage.

The DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line was the northernmost and most capable of three radar lines in Canada, used during the Cold War to provide early warning of Soviet bomber attacks.

The bow of a ship is battered by Arctic winds.

1824 - An engraving of Sir John Franklin.

Charting the Bellot Strait through the Northwest Passage in Nunavut.

The remains of a winter shelter using whale bones for roofing material.

Tin cans from Franklin's fateful expedition through the Northwest Passage.

1851 - Critical position of H.M.S. Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island.