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Inuvik

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[in-oo-vik, ih-noo-] / ˈɪn u vɪk, ɪˈnu- /

noun

  1. a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Mackenzie River at the Beaufort Sea.


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The first project is a roughly 500-mile all-season gravel road in the Northwest Territories, connecting its capital Yellowknife with Inuvik, Canada’s largest town north of the Arctic Circle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

Because of it's northern location, Inuvik also sees 56 days of 24 hour daylight in the summer.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2024

One is from Inuvik, Northwest Territories, near the Arctic Circle, and the other from Ecuador, which straddles the equator.

From Scientific American Jul. 2, 2022

Tyra Bain, 15, practicing at the Curling Center in Inuvik, a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada, during her school lunch break.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2022

Lennie grew up in Inuvik, 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle, so she knows all of this.

From Seattle Times Feb. 21, 2022

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