5,983
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
no edit summary
There are officially 26 communities in Nunavut, though there are other former settlements, weather stations and mining sites. There are approximately 850 km of road over the territory, the main one being a temporary ice road (568 km) lasting a few weeks each year. There is no real road link between actual communities, the network being limited to the various settlements, only accessible through air and, seasonly, sea.
Nunavut is a remote territory and hardly accessible for hitchhikers unless they [[Boat hitchhikinga boat|hitch a boat]] or a [[Planehitchhiking a plane|plane]]. Airfares are expensive: typically, Montreal-Iqaluit is 1,5 to twice the price of a Montreal-Paris flight. The passenger airlines reaching Iqaluit from communities linked to Canada'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]], 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'Or]] in Quebec. It varies with the time of the year and weather conditions.
Private plane owners could be found by networking with Nunavut's only flying club : [http://polarpilots.ca/ Polar Pilots]
{{IsIn|Canada}}
[[Category:Canada]]
[[Category:Nunavut|*]]
