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The Trans-Canada trail comes through here.
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I always try and get one picture of the Hawaii Explosive Company's T-shirt in strange locations - so here it is!
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So this is the end of the line - the most northerly point in Canada that you can drive to on a public road that is connected to the rest of the road network. The stones in the background are the shore line and beyond that is the Arctic Ocean. There is nothing beyond here until you get to Russia (except for the North Pole).
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I'm going to make the claim that this is the furthest north a genuine Hawaiian car has been (genuine in the sense that this plate really does belong to this car, even though I currently have temporary Alberta plates on the back. The title of the car is still in Hawaii). The only place where this might have been beaten that I can think of is on the Dalton highway to Prudhoe bay.
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Just short of 69.5 degrees north (I should have reprogrammed the destination to show the distance to home which would have been about 2500km in a straight line - but ~4000km if you have to follow the road!).
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Vast expanses of frozen ocean.
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The view of the ice road coming into Tuk.
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This is how most normal people get to Tuk!
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Tuk harbour, looking rather frozen.
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The angle of the satellite dishes was somewhat lower than usual...
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We climbed up onto the main Pingo on the edge of the village at sunset (which is a long drawnout affair even at the beginning of April).
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