Canada
Pangnirtung
A fiord hamlet of world-famous weavers ships Arctic turbot from a community-owned plant.
Mountains ring the hamlet at the water's edge where the fiord bends. In the print shop, tapestries carry the land into thread.
Pangnirtung pairs the Uqqurmiut Centre's internationally collected prints and tapestries with a working fishery: the community-owned plant, forty years old, processes Cumberland Sound turbot and char through seventy-plus local fishers. It is also Auyuittuq's southern gateway. Art, fish and rock share one shoreline.
Solo
Studios, fishery and fiord walks reward an unhurried solo stay.
- Uqqurmiut's tapestries and prints are collected worldwide.
- A community-owned plant ships Cumberland Sound turbot through seventy local fishers.
- The hamlet is Auyuittuq's southern gateway.
Auyuittuq Lodge folds a continental breakfast into the stay.
The lodge dining room serves guest dinners at extra cost.
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Roman-era limestone quarries with workers' graffiti and a hidden early Christian chapel inside.
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Black-necked cranes wade through a high-altitude salt lake encrusted with blinding white mineral rings.
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A Mackenzie Delta town grows gardens under midnight sun inside an old hockey arena.
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A small Dene community keeps the gate where the Nahanni meets the lowlands.
Baker Lake
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Nunavut's only inland community makes bold art near the exact centre of Canada.