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Extract from the Inuvik Travel Guides:
INUVIK
- "the place of man" - is the farthest north you can drive on a public highway in North America, unless, that is, you wait for the winter freeze and follow the ice road carved across the frozen sea to the north. Canada's first planned town north of the Arctic Circle, Inuvik was begun in 1954 as an administrative centre to replace Aklavik, a settlement to the west wrongly thought to be doomed to envelopment by the Mackenzie's swirling waters and shifting mud flats. Finished in 1961, it's a strange melting pot of around 3000 people, with Dene, Mtis and Inuvialuit living alongside the trappers, pilots, scientists and frontier e...
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