Paddling near Baker Lake, Nunavut

Baker Lake (Qamani'tuaq) sits at the mouth of the Thelon River in Nunavut, Canada's only inland Inuit community and the main access point to the Thelon Heritage River. The surrounding tundra lakes and rivers draw canoeists on multi-week wilderness expeditions, with the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary — vast, remote, and largely unaltered — as the defining destination for serious paddlers in the region.