Quttinirpaaq National Park

Quttinirpaaq National Park lies on northeastern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut as Canada’s northernmost national park and one of the most northerly parks on Earth. Covering 37,775 square kilometres, it is Canada’s second largest national park. Established in 1988 as Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve, it was renamed in 1999 and became a full national park in 2000. This vast, rarely visited landscape of rock, ice, glaciers, and polar desert includes Barbeau Peak, Nunavut’s highest mountain. Despite extreme cold and dramatic seasonal light, it supports specialized Arctic wildlife and preserves about 5,000 years of human use, from Arctic peoples to later polar exploration at Fort Conger.

Nunavut · Canada