Following on from my where in the world Canada. I think I discovered a few things, one I didn’t know all the Provinces and territories, in fact I only got 5 right. To help me remember, I am going to do an extra post on this on at least one place I got spectacularly wrong. Which is Nunavut, it is the largest one out of the 13. Pretty hard to miss, but I managed it. What do we know about this place. 10 facts about it
- It is the second least populated of Canada’s provinces and territories and is the newest one as well, as of 1993.
- It is not connected to Canada by road, and the population is mainly made up of Inuit people.
- It is home to the northest permanently inhabited place, called Alert.
- While French and English are spoken the main language is the Inuit languages Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun
- You ever want to see a Narwhal, this is the best place to see them 75% of the Narwhal population call it home
- There are no trees (well almost)
- Taxis charge a flat rate of $7
- For an area of nearly 1 million square miles it only has 32 km of paved road
- You ever want to see a sunset at lunchtime, December 17th at 1.40pm, however June 20th Iqaluit gets 20.5 hours of sunlight
- Although not a fact Susan Aglukark comes from there and this is one of her songs
Lets hope I never miss out Nunavut again.
Well now as a Canadian I will admit that I was unaware (and how shameful) that the territory of Nunavut had been carved off of the NW Territories in the ’90’s. Mind the last time that I recited all the provinces I could not remember New Brunswick (ooooops) In my defense I have been out of school for nigh on 30 years lol š
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Learn something new everyday, I learnt 10 new facts and how to spell Nunavut
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My learning usually takes place at work this was a nice change
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Thats good š
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Nunavut is fairly new so you’re forgiven. xo
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But also really big and the fact I thought it was Prince Edward Island, probably really rubbed it in
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Very cool information. Like Jay-lyn, I would have lumped that whole northern section into the Northwest Territory and let the polar bears and moose decide how to run things. Getting there sounds tough with only 32 km of paved roads. Thanks for the data.
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You get there by plane, or at certain times of the year snow plough type thing. The main use of transport if the snow bike things, that I have forgotten what they are called
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I have always been fascinated by Nunavut.
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I would like to see a sunset at lunchtime
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Trina, can you repost that South American map with the numbers in it? Can’t find it to post my answers. Or send a link? Thanks.
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Thats it Larry, if you want I can email it to you
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Got it…I’m going to attach my answers here first. I’ll make a real post later.
1) Columbia
2) Venezuela
3) Ghana
4) Surinam
5) ???
6) Ecuador
7) Peru
8) Bolivia
9) Brazil
10) Paraguay
11) Chile
12) Argentina
13) Uraguay
#5 stumps me…been a while since I paid attention to South America.
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Wow! I learned a couple of new things here! Thanks!
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I learnt lots of new things, hopefully won’t forget it again
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