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Ivvavik National Park

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Location
  
Yukon, Canada

Governing body
  
Parks Canada

Established
  
1984

Management
  
Parks Canada

Nearest city
  
Inuvik

Area
  
10,168 kmĀ²

Phone
  
+1 867-777-8800

Ivvavik National Park

Address
  
Ivvavik National Park, Unorganized, YT Y0B 1G0, Canada

Ivvavik national park by flight


Ivvavik National Park is a national park located in Yukon, Canada. Initially named "Northern Yukon National Park," the park was renamed Ivvavik in 1992 for the Inuvialuktun word meaning "nursery" or "birthplace." Created as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement in 1984, negotiated the Canadian Government and the Inuvialuit of the Northern Yukon, Ivvavik is the first national park in Canada to be established as a result of an aboriginal land claims agreement.

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Protecting a portion of the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, the park allows only a minimal number of people to visit per year.

On the shore of Beaufort Sea, there is abundant game for timber wolves, grizzly bears, and black bears that inhabit the area. Other animals that inhabit this park are red foxes, Alaskan moose, lemmings, Arctic foxes, Dall sheep, gyrfalcons, muskoxen, and wolverines. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lies just across the border in Alaska.

On the south-east, Ivvavik National Park borders Vuntut National Park, established in 1995. Due to land claims negotiations, Vuntut is still quite undeveloped and has no roads or developed trails. Due to its undeveloped nature, several people have gotten lost and are presumed dead.

Camping in ivvavik national park


References

Ivvavik National Park Wikipedia