Just finished up a tour of the Canadian Arctic: Baffin Island, Devon Island, Beechey Island. The original itinerary was a flight on a regional jet from Calgary, through Yellowknife, then on to Resolute. The tour company had to scramble as the Canadian fire situation deteriorated. We ended up flying into Iqaluit, then working our way up to Resolute by boat. We then boarded a regional jet at Resolute Bay (CYRB) in Nunavut for a flight back to Calgary. The "hamlet" (their term) of Resolute has some 140 permanent residents. The airport has a 6500 ft gravel runway. Up at 74.72N, compass headings are unreliable: runways are marked in True directions.
Charter flights in the Canadian Arctic
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Zeldman
Touchdown! Greaser!
My wife and I want to visit Resolute and then up to Grise Fjiord on Ellesmire Island. The hamlet is also known as Aujuittuq, which is an Inuit name that means “the place that never thaws out”.
Sounds like my kind of place.
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Sounds like my kind of place.
A visit to Grise Fiord, Canada's most northerly community
It doesn't get more northern than the hamlet of Grise Fiord in Nunavut, where 135 people embrace one of the coldest climates in the world.