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Parks & Nature
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary
- Allow
- 1.5 hr
- Admission
- See website
The Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is the largest wildlife refuge in Canada. At 52,000 square kilometres (20,077 sq mi), it is over twice the area of Belgium. It is located in northern Canada's Arctic region, north of the tree line, straddling the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, halfway between Baker Lake and Yellowknife, and bordered on the north between the Baillie River on the west and the Consul River at the east by the Back River. It is the namesake of the Thelon River, whose river valley is a biologically diverse boreal forest, leading to its classification as a "Biological Site of Universal Importance" by the International Biological Program in the 1960s.
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Getting there
Nunavut