Tuktoyaktuk

Photo Courtesy of GNWT

Lat: 69° 27' 0N
Long: 133° 4' 0W

Tuktoyaktuk or Tuktuuyaqtuuk meaning "place resembling a caribou" is found amidst a landscape dotted with huge ice-covered hills known as pingos situated on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. It is very much a traditional whaling community and the major Inuvialuit community within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. In the 1980s it was the centre of oil and gas activities in the Western Arctic. Today, there are still large reserves of gas and oil on and offshore.