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The capital cityThere are officially 26 communities in Nunavut, [[Iqaluit]]though there are other former settlements, is only accessible through air weather stations and sea as it is located on mining sites. There are approximately 850 km of road over the Baffin Island in territory, the above Polar Circlemain one being a temporary ice road (568 km) lasting a few weeks each year. Some settlements located in There is no real road link between actual communities, the mainland bordering network being limited to the [[Northwest Territories]] might be various settlements, only accessible through some dusty lumberjack country roadair and, seasonly, although the traffic will nearly be absentsea. Nonetheless to say that Nunavut is a remote territory and hardly accessible and would only be open for those having the means hitchhikers unless they [[Boat hitchhiking|hitch a boat]] or a [[Plane|plane]]. Airfares are expensive: typically, Montreal-Iqaluit is 1,5 to twice the purpose price of a Montreal-Paris flight. The passenger airlines reaching Iqaluit from communities linked to pay for the transport (for that meaningCanada's main road network are [http://www.canadiannorth.com/ Canadian North], [http://www.firstair.ca/ First Air] and [http://www.aircanada.com/ AirCanada]. They depart mostly from [[Montreal]], [[Ottawa]] and [[Yellowknife]], it is nearly unaccessible even with indirect routes from [[Winnipeg]] and [[Edmonton]]. But as airliners are usually not good to hitchhike on, one could have more chances with cargo flights, some of which also leave from [[Val d'southernOr]] in Quebec. It varies with the time of the year and weather conditions. Private plane owners could be found by networking with Nunavut' Canadians only flying club : [http://polarpilots.)ca/ Polar Pilots]
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'''Nunavut ''' is the newest [[Canada|Canadian]] territory , as it was created from the year 1998a part of [[Northwest Territories]] in April 1999. The Its population of the 'Great North' (, mostly Innus) Inuit, is sparsed over a territory as large territory and the road network as Western Europe. Although most native's first language is limited to one of the various settlementsdialects of Inuktitut, most people have a good command of the English language. The native population speaks proper English as well as Innuscapital city, in some area[[Iqaluit]], French might also be possibleis located on the Baffin Island close to the Arctic Circle.
Therefore, hitch-hiking in Nunavut might only reveal being a local experience or only possible through air traffic or snow traffic (sledge and snowmobile car).
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