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Mintage : 750

The Arctic: Canada's Crowning Glory

Sculpted by relentless winds, grinding ice, and bitter cold, the vast, open Canadian Arctic landscape embodies the ancient spirit of Earth's glacial past. Locked in twilight formuch of the year, cast in blinding contrast for its few months of midnight sun, the Canadian Arctic is like no other place on Earth.

That humans have thrived here for millennia is astonishing. Having evolved a lifestyle integrated with the freezing and thawing of the frozen ocean waters that surround and touch each island and archipelago, the peoples of this land have adapted to a landscape of striking extremes.

For Canadians, the Arctic represents not only a massive component of the nation's geography and the interconnectedness of Canadian lands from sea to sea to sea, but the source of the ice, snow, and cold that has carved out not only the land but the soul of this country. Mapped by Canadian explorers such as those of the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition, the lands, waterways, and continental shelves extending from the Northwest Passage to the nearer North are sovereign Canadian territories that play an important role in the heritage of Canada's people, geography, and environment.
 

CANADA'S ARCTIC LANDSCAPE - 2013 CANADIAN COINS is categorised COINS AND PAPER MONEY / 08- ROYAL CANADIAN MINT / 10- FLORA, FAUNA & NATURE and sold by l'Imaginaire, a store and specialised website.