Spring Floes in Arctic Canada

 

The Canadian High Arctic is a place few people have a chance to visit. Here, in the springtime, the sun shines 24 hours a day, wildlife abounds, and the indigenous people, the Inuit, celebrate the return of the Midnight Sun with camping and hunting on the floe-edge. Migratory birds by the millions, in breeding plumage, head to their nesting grounds on nearby Bylot Island and Sirmilik National Park, Canada’s premier bird sanctuary, and north to Devon and Ellesmere Islands. Here, the Arctic exhibits a concentration of the marine food chain, seal, narwhal, walrus and polar bears, plankton, and fish, all living in a surrealistic seascape dotted by gigantic Greenland-bred icebergs.