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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

The two had been 14 hours into the Inuvik Weekend Warrior Fat Bike Challenge - a three-day cycle across frozen rivers, remote highways and Canada's Arctic wilderness - when they were forced to withdraw.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026

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

They are new to curling, and to Inuvik, which one of them describes as “this little slice of heaven in the Arctic.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

In Inuvialuktun, the language spoken in the settlement of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories in Canada, the name Kulluk means “thunder.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2014

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