Aulavik National Park

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Aulavik National Park
Aulavik National Park (Canada)
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Coordinates: 73 ° 42 ′ 1 ″  N , 119 ° 55 ′ 10 ″  W.
Location: Northwest Territories , Canada
Next city: Yellowknife
Surface: 12,200 km²
Founding: 1992
Visitors: 24 (2017/2018)
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The Aulavik National Park ( English Aulavik National Park of Canada , French Parc national du Canada Aulavik ) is a Canadian national park founded in 1992 on the Banks Island in the Northwest Territories . The park is an IUCN Category II (National Park) protected area .

It is best known for the Thomsen River , one of the northernmost navigable rivers in North America. The completely treeless park is open to visitors and protects an area of ​​around 12,274 km² of the arctic plain at the northern end of the island. The cheapest way to visit the park is to charter a plane. There are four landing sites (as of 2005). Aulavik is a polar desert with often strong winds. The average rainfall is around 300 mm per year. In the south of the park there is a low vegetation plateau 450 m above sea level.

Aulavik is the second fewest visitors of all Canadian national parks. Only the Tuktut-Nogait National Park had fewer visitors with officially four visitors in the same period. What this park has in common with very few visitors is its remote location in the far north.

fauna

An estimated 68,000 to 80,000 musk oxen live on the island , which is the world's largest population. About 20 percent of them live in the national park, which is also home to the endangered reindeer subspecies Peary caribou and Greenland reindeer . During the year 43 different bird species live in the park, of which only the ptarmigan and the raven stay all year round. Birds of prey in the national park are the snowy owl , the buzzard , the gyrfalcon and the peregrine falcon . Further, the come brown Lemming , the northern collar Lemming , wolves , Arctic foxes and polar rabbits before.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Parks Canada Attendance 2017-18. (PDF; 187.08 KB) Parks Canada, accessed on July 27, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Aulavik National Park (English)