Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
February 2002
Of course there is no better time to travel
to the arctic than in the middle of winter . . . so off I went to visit
my friend Kelly and her husband Sam and to work on a magazine article about
the Inuit law school that Kelly was involved with in Iqaluit. Luckily it
was relatively warm, only about -15C to -20C instead of the -38C with windchill
of -54C it had been the weekend previous. This page has some scenes
of Iqaluit and the second page has a few photos of me and my pals! For
more info or to find out exactly where Nunavut is, you can visit the government
website.
<<This is a sundog . . . kind of a vertical rainbow
made by the sun. This is taken from a hill top in the middle of town even
though it looks like it's the edge of the world.
This is no sundog, it's
part of one of the many dogsledding teams in town. Watch out for yellow
snow! Note the number on the box. In Iqaluit, the streets have no names.
Every building in town has only a number. >> 
Sunset over Frobisher
Bay. V
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cemetary. It's right on the edge of Frobisher Bay and if you look closely
you can see it's not smooth. That's because the tides in the bay are so
strong, they can crack and move the ice, even when it is many feet thick.
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