The North, Kluane National Park is a land where the man is the intruder and the nature is wonderful.
This area is also home to Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, and some of the most extensive and wonderful icefields outside the polar región.
This park joins St. Elias and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, and the Taatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park in British Columbia as one of the great protected areas in the world.
We can find in this area extensive icefields as well as mountian lakes, alpine meadows, tundra and cold swift-flowing rivers and forests of spruce and aspen.
The main animals that live in this area are : wolves, caribou, seals and polar bears.
This area is also home to Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, and some of the most extensive and wonderful icefields outside the polar región.
This park joins St. Elias and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, and the Taatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park in British Columbia as one of the great protected areas in the world.
We can find in this area extensive icefields as well as mountian lakes, alpine meadows, tundra and cold swift-flowing rivers and forests of spruce and aspen.
The main animals that live in this area are : wolves, caribou, seals and polar bears.
During the winter season the polar bears are on the prowl. They actively hunt seals on the polar ice pack.When the spring season comes and the ice is gone, the bears come ashore and some move several kilometres inland. Exceedingly fat from their winter of eating, polar bears spend most of the summer sleeping to conserve energy.
They are one of the wonders of the north, and have a loveable and cuddly look to them.
But...¿What kind of people could live in a climate like this ? Native Canadians from the north call themselves Inuit. Living in such a climate requires one to be ingenious, hearty, shillful, thrifty. Generations have lived there, enduring the cold and the darkness. Led by an unwavering faith in their Spirits and Gods.
Today most Inuit live in villages or settlements, but for years the traditional igloo was home.
In this area you can enjoy the northen Lights :
You can observe the aurora borealis in the northern night sky in Canada's western provinces, and into Ontario's north if conditions are right.
The northen lights are created when the billions of electrically charged ions emitted from the sun every day are pushed toward earth by solar wind and pulled here by gravity. When these ions collide with the earth, they are directed to the north and south poles. The colour of the aurora is created when the ions mix with gas atoms to give off light. Different gases mean different colours of light.
A unique, wonderful show that you can not miss.
