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Wonderful Nunavut By:Cassandra Miller,Ashley Spatz Used world book login

Major cities Iqaluit is on Baffin island and is on Frobisher Bay. The town name is Inuktitut because it means a place of fish in Inuit language.In 1576 an English explorer named Sir Frobisher became the first to see Baffin Island.

Fun facts When cubs are born they are blind and weigh up to 1 1/2 pounds. Polar bears can live up to 33 years old. Caribou are a large deer from Greenland and northern America. There are 2 types of caribou, barren ground and woodland. Beavers live in Canada and the United states then anywhere else in the in the world. Beavers also live Asia and Europe. The Falcon can live on the cliffs of the Rocky mountains because they can camouflage themselves. Major bodies of water The Coppermine and the Back river flow into the Hudson bay. The Hudson bay covers about 316,500 square miles three times the combined area of the Great Lakes. The sipping season last from mid-July to mid-October.

Economy During the winter in Iqaluit receives only four to six hours of sunlight and the temperatures drop as low as -49 F and the long summer days rise to 77 F.

Some fish like cod,flounder,hake,and pollock are found on the ocean floor.Carp, catfish, and whitefish are raised on fish farms.The fish farms provides a job for millions of people.

Major landforms The Canadian shield is a huge rockey reigon that curves around that Hudson bay like a big horseshoe. The Canadian shield has a base of gneiss and granite.