Transcript

[Standard Parks Canada Intro]

[This video is a series of images of pingos taken at the Pingo Canadian Landmark]

Narrator:
Pingo Canadian Landmark protects a unique arctic landform: ice-cored hills called pingos.
Rising out of the flat tundra of the Northwest Territories, these hills provide a distinctive backdrop.
Pingo Canadian Landmark features eight of the nearly 1400 pingos found in the region including Ibyuk Pingo, Canada's highest.
Reaching 49 metres in height and stretching 300 metres across its base, Ibyuk is also the world's second-tallest pingo.

For centuries, pingos have acted as navigational aids for Inuvialuit travelling by land and water and as a convenient height of land for spotting caribou on the tundra or whales offshore.
Today, a short boat ride from Tuktoyaktuk lets summer visitors experience this unique tundra landscape from a boardwalk, with great views of the largest pingos.