Northwest Territories Parks

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Northwest Territories

an administrative unit of Canada. Area, 3.78 million sq km. Population, 39,000, including 11,000 Eskimo and 7,000 Indians (1971). The city of Yel-lowknife is the capital.

The Northwest Territories occupies the northern part of the North American continent and includes the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; more than four-fifths of the region lies within the Laurentian Upland (Canadian Shield). To the west are the Mackenzie Mountains, with elevations to 2,164 m. The climate is subpolar and subarctic. Average monthly temperatures range from 3°–16°C to -28°C and -36°C. Annual precipitation varies from 150 to 400 mm. Vegetation is primarily of the tundra and forest-tundra type; there are coniferous forests in the southwest.

The Northwest Territories is one of the least-developed parts of Canada. Its economy is based on mining. Zinc and lead are mined at Pine Point, gold at Yellowknife, and tungsten at Tungsten; petroleum is extracted at Norman Wells. The principal occupations of the indigenous population are fur trapping (arctic fox and muskrat) and fishing (whitefish and trout). The Mackenzie River is the region’s principal transportation artery.

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References in periodicals archive

Yellowknife: Northwest Territories Wildlife Service.

Feeding patterns of barren-ground grizzly bears in the central Canadian Arctic

Brown, Our Lady of the Snows Mission, Colville Lake, Northwest Territories.

End-of-Earth People: The Arctic Sahtu Dene

Asia, a continent with 4.4 billion people that is reaching out to the rest of the world for natural resources, is a likely market and partner-with China as a prime source of investment capital for Alaska and the Northwest Territories. The country has nearly 1.5 billion people and a growing I need for energy.

Alaska to scale: expansive and expensive

* The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet people in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in Canada yesterday

William and Kate see frontier community

When the Royal couple formally arrive in the region's capital, Yellowknife, they will join the premier of the Northwest Territories Floyd Roland, a former minor league ice hockey coach and player, for a game of "shinny" or street hockey and are expected to drop a puck or shoot a few penalties.

Royal lake tour; In brief

His joy is dashed when he discovers that his RCMP father has just been transferred to Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Miserable about leaving his friends, Mike is reluctant to embrace the North.

Arctic Thunder

of Toronto, Canada) examines the political culture of Nunavut, the political territory carved out of the Canada's Northwest Territories in 1999 in accordance with the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.

Nunavut; rethinking political culture

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Nunavut X1A 1 N2

Canada: provincial officials in charge of insurance affairs

Idaho hunter Jim Martell was polar bear hunting on Banks Island, Canada Northwest Territories last April when he got his game.

First-known polar-grizzly bear hybrid

The diamond-mining cartel released its Snap Lake Socio-Economic Report for 2005, as required by its agreement with the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Aboriginal employees noted diamond mining project report