Archive: Northwest Territories Cool Facts

Leslie Neilsen

Actor Leslie Nielsen was the son of a Mountie and raised in the Northwest Territories

Buffalo in Wood Buffalo National Park

Wood Buffalo National Park has the world’s largest free-roaming herd of Bison

Whooping Cranes

Wood Buffalo National Park has the only natural nesting area for the Whooping Crane

Blanket Toss

The Blanket Toss, one of the Arctic’s unique sports, is a unique game with its roots in hunting

Pingos near Tuktoyaktuk By Emma Pike - public domain via Wikimedia Commons

This is where you can find the you can find the world’s largest concentration of Pingos

Ice Road photo courtesy NWT Tourism

In the Canadian north roads are constructed out of ice

AuroraMax Yellowknife April 3 2014

In the Northwest Territories you can see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) about 243 days a year

Aurora Max

Thanks to the Canadian Space Agency you can watch the Northern Lights over Yellowknife live on the internet

Nahanni photo courtesy Northwest Territories Tourism

Nahanni National Park 1st to be granted World Heritage status by UNESCO

Igloo Church

In Inuvik, Canada’s most northerly town, there is a church is shaped like an igloo

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