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Northern Canada is a vast land of incredible beauty and stark contrasts that make up more than one third of the land mass of Canada. The northern regions of the Canadian provinces and the territories of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut stretch across five time zones from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans where small communities on rocky, treeless islands are closer to Greenland than they are to any Canadian city. It is a land of majestic mountains, treeless tundra, glaciers, icebergs, thick forests and almost countless lakes and rivers.
It is a land that is covered with snow and ice for more than half of the year. During the short Arctic summer, it is the Land of the Midnight Sun, while in winter it is a land engulfed in relentless cold and almost endless darkness. The North is home to caribou, moose, wolves, polar bears, muskox, grizzly bears, whales, walrus, seals, majestic eagles, and many other species of birds, marine life and animals. It is a harsh yet fragile, unforgiving land with few roads and even fewer people. 
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