Yesterday I arrived in Inuvik, NWT! The land of the midnight sun:) For those of you who do not know where that is, look at a map, you will find me at the top of the world! Inuvik is 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle on the Mackenzie River Delta. The environment as somewhere between the treeless tundra and the northern boreal forest, and as I saw from the flight in, the is in the middle of an incredible maze of lakes and streams of the Delta. Inuvik means "place of people" and that is what it is in this area. It is also the homeland of the Inuvialuit and Gwich'in first Nations people and a wide variety of other aboriginal and non-aboriginal people. I have not seen very much wildlife up here yet
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