Located south of Pond Inlet, Oliver Sound features an immense scenic fiord with excellent opportunities for boating, sea kayaking, and camping. Its steep cliffs and valley glaciers provide some of Sirmilik's most impressive scenery, and its sheltered waters are ice-free relatively early in the summer season.

Oliver Sound - Kangiqluruluk: south of Pond Inlet, Oliver Sound features an immense scenic fiord with excellent opportunities for boating, sea kayaking, and camping. Its steep cliffs and valley glaciers provide some of Sirmilik's most impressive scenery, and its sheltered waters are ice-free relatively early in the summer season.

Sirmilik is one of eight Canadian national parks that contains polar bears. [15] Arctic wolves roam and inhabit this park. A major seabird colony is located in the area of Baillarge Bay.

Sirmilik National Park is home not only to breathtaking views of the sea, mountains, and broad valley vistas, but also to an amazing variety of marine and avian wildlife. One of Canada’s most...

Sirmilik National Park is a national park on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. As of Jan 2022, the park is on UNESCO's mixed tentative list along with the proposed Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area for its exceptional representation of the Arctic ecosystem.

Amid an expansive landscape of glaciers, valleys and red-rock hoodoo spires, nesting seabirds crowd the cliffs of Bylot Island, high above icy waters teeming with narwhal and beluga whales. Sirmilik is an area rich in wildlife that has sustained Inuit for thousands of years.

Bylot Island is filled with awe inspiring rugged mountains, glaciers and icefields, seabird colonies and coastal lowlands. Oliver Sound is a long, narrow fiord with excellent opportunities for boating, hiking and camping. Borden Peninsula is an extensive plateau dissected by broad river valleys.

Sirmilik National Park is located in Nunavut next to the communities of Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay. Commercial flights are available year-round to both communities. The park can be reached by boat or snowmobile with a licensed outfitter and the best times to visit are in spring and summer.

Approximately 3600 people live in five adjacent communities (Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay, Resolute Bay, Grise Fiord and Clyde River). Primarily Inuit, they continue to use the travel routes and hunter gatherer traditions of their seasonal round.

Feb 7, 2006 · Located on northern Baffin Island in Canada's High Arctic, Sirmilik National Park (agreement signed 1999; 22 250 km 2) is one of Canada's isolated and most spectacular national parks. Sirmilik is an Inuktitut word that means "place of glaciers."