Canadian Arctic
Polar region northward
The Canadian Arctic is the vast northern region of Canada lying above the Arctic Circle, encompassing the territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon, along with numerous islands including the Arctic Archipelago.
The region is characterized by permafrost, tundra, and polar climate, and is home to Inuit communities with deep ancestral ties to the land.
Climate change is transforming the Canadian Arctic faster than almost anywhere on Earth.
- polar vortexPersistent circulating cold air mass
- InuktitutInuit people's language
- polar bearLarge white arctic mammal
- Baffin IslandArctic Canadian island
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
resource extraction · bush plane · throat singing · midnight sun · traditional storytelling · Northwest Passage · Nunavut · territorial claims · igloo · land claims · muskox · permafrost · Hudson Bay · sea ice · blizzards · polar night · seal hunting · beluga whale
- Arcticpolar bear, polar bears, polar ice, polar ice cap, polar region
- Cold RegionsAntarctica, tundra regions, polar regions, Siberia, polar desert
- arctic special regionsNorth Pole, Greenland, Svalbard, Nunavut, sea ice
- Walrus HabitatBering Sea, pack ice, ice floes, sea ice, rookery
- Canadian Shieldboreal forest, glacial lakes, Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, metamorphic rock
Canadian Arctictropics
Warm equatorial region
equatorial regions · Amazon rainforest · Caribbean · tropical rainforest · equator
Canadian ArcticSouthern Ontario
Peninsular region of Canada
Windsor · Vancouver · Toronto · Montreal · Great Lakes region