Nunavut, Canada

Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory in the country and it is genuinely another world — an Inuit homeland created by land claim in 1999, where Inuktitut is the working language of the government and the majority of the population is Indigenous. Iqaluit is the capital with about eight thousand people and no road connection to anywhere, which means everything arrives by air or by sealift ship in the brief ice-free season. Baffin Island is the fifth-largest island on earth, Auyuittuq has the granite walls that mountaineers travel across the world for, and the tundra is genuinely empty in a way that photographs cannot communicate.

The territory's character is Inuit and communal — the land is the culture, hunting is still a real part of life for many families, and the southern idea of a night out does not exist in the same form. The light is the defining feature: twenty-four hours of sun in June and twenty-four hours of darkness in December.

Expect genuine Inuit culture, real Arctic light extremes, and the most authentically remote rooms on this site.

Nearby: Northwest Territories Yukon Manitoba Winnipeg