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Territory of Canada
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The Northwest Territories (NWT) is a vast wilderness area that is a part of Northern Canada. Summer in the NWT offers open water, camping, hot weather and the midnight sun. Autumn offers vivid colours in the mountains and bountiful berry-picking in the Barrenlands, and excellent opportunities to see the Aurora Borealis. Winter is an even better time to see the Northern Lights when the sky is clear and the nights are long. Springtime is ideal for snowmobiling, dogsledding, ice-fishing, and skiing.
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By car
From Alberta, Highway 16 leaves from Edmonton to connect to Highway 43. Highway 43 (part of Mackenzie Highway) heads north towards NWT becoming NWT Highway 1 (part of Mackenzie Highway).
By train
One of the best ways to get around the Northwest Territories is by car. This gives you unlimited freedom to choose your own itinerary.
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on Banks Island, accessible only by chartered plane, it is known for the Thomsen River, one of the most northerly navigable rivers in North America
; the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North America, also accessed by chartered plane
intended to protect the South Nahanni River watershed, it has no services, and is accessible only by chartered float plane
lakes, rivers and waterfalls, a striking archipelago of islands, peninsulas, landscape formations shaped by ancient ice sheets, dramatic red granite cliffs; it has no services, and is accessible from Łutselk'e which has scheduled flights from Yellowknife
170 km north of the Arctic Circle in the northeast corner of mainland Northwest Territories; scheduled flights from Inuvik
where the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and the territories of Northwest Territories and Nunavut meet, hundreds of kilometres from any road or railway
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