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One of Canada's most isolated locations is now on Google Street View

Do you want to take a look around the beautiful territory of Nunavut, but don’t want the chilly weather that comes with it?

Google Trekker has successfully explored some Nunavut terrain for you.

<who>Photo Credit: Parks Canada/ Ryan Bray<who>Google Trekker at Quttinirpaaq National Park in Nunavut.

Quttinirpaaq National Park, one of Canada’s most remote areas, is now on Google Street View.

Watch a Parks Canada staff member collecting Street View images with the Google Trekker camera on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, just shy of the North Pole:

This is the furthest north that Street View has ever gone according to Quttinirpaaq National Park Manager Emma Upton.

Upton says in a Google blog post that the park gets fewer than 50 visitors each year, and is characterized by wilderness and extreme isolation.

<who>Photo Credit: Parks Canada/Ryan Bray</who> Google Trekker at Tanquary Fiord. Quttinirpaaq National Park.

“The park’s name itself translates to 'the top of the world' in Inuktitut, the local indigenous language,” writes Upton.

“With treks along the ocean shoreline, climbs up to lofty ridges, strolls beside glacial melt-water rivers, and scrambles at the foot of monumental glaciers, the resulting imagery is spectacular—a digital reflection of one of the world’s most rural locations,” Upton describes.

<who>Photo Credit: Parks Canada/Ryan Bray</who>Parks Canada staff walking along the shoreline of Grise Fiord, carrying Google Trekker.

“Internet access and bandwidth are challenging in this part of the world, but we wanted the people who live in and around the area to be able to enjoy the new Street View collection.”

In addition to capturing the remote beauty of the park, Google Trekker also visited Grise Fiord, Canada’s northernmost community, and Resolute Bay, which has a population of just 200 people.



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