There are many airports in Nunavut, Canada. However, not all Nunavut airports have regularly scheduled flights. We do not list the smallest Nunavut airports, since there is no way to provide you flights from those airports. First Air serves many of the smaller communities in Nunavut, northern Quebec, and Northwest Territories.
Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada; it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999. The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east. Other major communities include Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Nunavut also includes Ellesmere Island in the north and the east of Victoria Island in the west.
Nunavut is both the least populated and the largest of the provinces and territorities of Canada. It has a population of only 30,000 spread over an area the size of Western Europe. If Nunavut were a sovereign nation.
Nunavut means 'our land' in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit. Its inhabitants are called Nunavummiut, singular Nunavummiuq. Along with Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English, and French are also official languages.
Arctic tundra covers virtually all of Nunavut, the only exceptions being a tiny area in the extreme southwest near the "four corners" area, where a marginal taiga forest exists, and small zones of permanent ice caps, found on some of the larger Arctic Islands (especially Baffin, Devon and Ellesmere) at sites having a relatively high elevation. Nunavut's vegetation is partially composed of rare berries, lichens, Arctic Willows, moss, tough grass, and small willow shrubs. ( )
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