![]() ![]() He had been to northern Alaska before, but had been thinking for several years about discovering the Canadian Arctic. Alan Smith is among the tourist group that came to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, via the Aurora Expedition cruise ship in September 2022. ![]() Smith had just completed a crossing in the Northwest Passage, which started two weeks earlier in Kangerlussuaq, on the west coast of Greenland. On a windy September afternoon, Alan Smith, a tourist from Vancouver, was among the dozens of tourists all dressed in the same blue and black coat crowded in the Cambridge Bay airport, waiting to board his flight back to southern Canada. About 30 people could not disembark because they were positive for COVID-19, said the deputy expedition leader, Christian Genillard. 8, the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, operated by Australian company Aurora Expeditions, came in, carrying about 125 tourists, 95 passengers of which could come ashore. (Matisse Harvey/Radio-Canada)Ībout 13 cruise ships have passed through the waters of the Northwest Passage and stopped in more than half of Nunavut’s communities, according to the territorial Department of Economic Development and Transportation. An Aurora Expeditions cruise ship anchored in the harbour of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in September 2022. The community’s total population is only 1,760, according to the 2021 census. Pleasure craft and ocean liners were not allowed to navigate Arctic coastal waters in 20 due to the pandemic.īut this year, between the end of July and the beginning of September, nine cruise ships, carrying some 1,800 passengers, visited Cambridge Bay, according to Angela Gerbrandt, the hamlet’s economic development officer. In recent years, traffic into the community came pretty much to a stop. “I look forward to this every year,” he said. It was a happy moment for Peter Avalak this summer as visitors stopping in by the boatload arrived in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.Īvalak, who was born and raised in the hamlet and is a carver, has often led group tours there over the years. Peter Avalak was born and raised in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and has spent many years in the past as a tour guide for visitors coming to the community by cruise ship. ![]()
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