Eskimo Art, Inuit Art, Canadian Native Artwork, Canadian Aboriginal Artwork

Eskimo Art, Inuit Art, Canadian Native Artwork, Canadian Aboriginal Artwork: "Iqaluit * [pop: under 7,000]
by Alootook Ipellie and Carol Rigby

If Mexico City is the largest city on earth, then Iqaluit easily gets the same designation within the new territory of Nunavut.

When you arrive at the bustling Iqaluit Airport, you might feel as though you've entered a frontier town. In several ways, you have. Iqaluit is the transportation hub to other Baffin Island communities, as well as to Greenland. And in December 1995, it was selected in a Nunavut-wide plebiscite to be the capital of the new central and eastern Arctic territory. That historic day arrived on April 1, 1999."