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Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik) is an Inuit community on the northern tip of Baffin Island, Nunavut, a renowned Arctic gateway for narwhal and floe-edge wildlife viewing. Guided boat tours from the community regularly encounter pods of narwhals in Eclipse Sound, set against Bylot Island's towering glaciers. The community is surrounded by the hiking trails of Tamaarvik Territorial Park, making it a base for Arctic wilderness and Inuit culture.

Mount Thor, in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut, rises to about 1,675 metres, and its western face features a continuous vertical drop of roughly 1,250 metres, recognized by Guinness World Records as the greatest vertical drop on Earth, overhanging by about 105 degrees. This granite peak is a legendary destination for climbers and mountaineers.