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Nunavut Trivia Eh?

November 29th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

      Area: 2, 093,190 square kilometers

      Freshwater Area: 157,077 square kilometers.

      High Temp: 25.8 C in the capitol of Iqaluit.

      Low Temp: -45.6 C in Iqaluit.

      Median Age: 22.1 years, making it the youngest population in Canada.

      Population: 28,847

      Pop. Density: 1 person in every 70 square kilometers, the lowest population density of all Canadian territories or provinces.

      Center of Canada:
      Lake Baker Lake in southern Nunavut, aka “The belly button” of Canada.

      Nunavut is above the treeline, but frozen fossils of prehistoric trees were found in 1985, they grew to be 46 meters tall.

      Residents of Nunavut travel by airplane 5 times more often than other Canadians because of the lack of roads.

      Largest of all Canada’s provinces or territories.

      The 3 largest islands in Canada are found in Nunavut: Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island.

      Magnetic North Pole is found in Nunavut.

      Nunavut has no native species of poisonous plants.

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