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By The New Yorker September 28, 2014 Adam Gopnik reports on a sighting, in the frigid waters off Nunavut, of Canada's greatest national myth: "it is as if someone had found, in a single moment, the hull of the Titanic, the solution to the mystery of the lost colony at Roanoke … and the menu for the Donner Party's last meal".

The creation in 1999 of the territory of Nunavut out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories reduced the area of the latter by more than half.

For the hunters in the hamlet of Clyde River, Nunavut, on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, the deaf seal was one among many.

Perhaps the most decisive step, however, was the creation in 1999 of the territory of Nunavut— carved out of the eastern section of the Northwest Territories with a largely Inuit population and an advanced form of self-government.

Is it possible to bridge the gap, or are the Nunavuts of the world simply out of luck?

Consistent with a previous study of Inuit birth outcomes in Canada [ 10], our study suggests a greater proportion of infants in Nunavut die of SIDS, SUDI or infection than infants in the rest of Canada.

The stark reality spawned a humorous, if also dark, infomercial about the sky-high cost of goods in Nunavut, one of Canada's territories.

It also includes King William Island, as well as parts of Prince of Wales and Somerset islands and the Nunavut portion of Victoria Island.

"Several skeletons of the fish were excavated four years ago on Ellesmere Island, in the Nunavut Territory of Canada, 700 miles above the Arctic Circle.

Using computer models, they simulated the movement of dioxin over the course of a year, from 44,091 sources that produce it to the Nunavut territory of the Inuit in the Arctic Circle.

The test run for the Iqaluit mapping exercise occurred last summer in Cambridge Bay, a much smaller Nunavut town of about 1,500 people located 1,700km and a time zone west of Iqaluit.