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Region of Canada
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By train
By plane
The largest airports in the region are in Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Whitehorse has limited seasonal international flights, and otherwise there are no international flights directly to the region.
Distances tend to be large and there are few roads and no passenger railways north of the 60th parallel. There are no roads connecting between any communities in Nunavut.
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historic Klondike gold rush town, now a national historic site
capital and largest settlement of Nunavut
the most populous town in the Canadian Arctic, almost 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, at the inland end of the Mackenzie Delta and the northern end of the Dempster Highway
the capital and largest city of the Yukon
the NWT's capital and largest settlement, with several scenic walking trails, and the territorial museum
its name means "the land that never melts", and it includes many terrains of the Arctic wilderness, such as fjords, glaciers, and ice fields
generally accessible only via a flightseeing tour or on a serious mountaineering or ski touring expedition
a home to the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North America, also accessed by chartered plane
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