Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Location of Ukkusiksalik National Park in Canada
Location	Nunavut, Canada
Nearest city	Chesterfield Inlet
Coordinates	65°20′30″N 87°18′20″W / 65.34167, -87.30556
Area	20,500 km²
Established	August 23, 2003
Governing body	Parks Canada

Qarmaq relicts (Thule site)

Ukkusiksalik National Park is a national park in Nunavut, Canada.

It is a 20,500 km² tundra and coastal mudflat region stretching westward from Hudson Bay on the Nunavut mainland, just south of the Arctic Circle. The park surrounds Wager Bay, a 100 km long inlet on the Hudson Bay.

In addition to a reversing waterfall and 500 archeological sites, including an old Hudson's Bay Company trading post, the region is home to such species as Polar Bears, Grizzly Bears, the Arctic Wolf, caribou, seals and Peregrine Falcons. Vegetation in the park is typical low tundra, with dwarf birch, willow and mountain avens. Scattered patches of boreal forest can be encountered in river valleys.

The park is uninhabited now, but the Inuit lived there from 1000s to the 1960s. Remains of fox traps, tent rings, and food caches have been discovered in the area. The Hudson's Bay Company had an operating trading post in the area from 1925 to 1947.

The park was created on August 23, 2003, becoming Canada's 41^st national park. It can be reached by flights from Winnipeg, Manitoba and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Photo gallery

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) stepping on ice flow

Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) on ice flow in Wager Bay

Two young Barrenland caribous (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) near Wager Bay

Polar bear mother and two cubs climbing up Guillemot Island

See also

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Ukkusiksalik Park

• Canadian National Parks
• List of Canadian national parks
• List of Nunavut parks

External links

• CBC News article
• Parks Canada (pdf)

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