Top 10 most photogenic locations in Canada

#5

Baffin Island, Nunavut

Encircled by five bodies of water, Canada’s largest island (and the fifth-largest island in the world), is an Arctic playground located to the west of Greenland. Discovered by Europeans in 1576 and used extensively in the whaling industry during the 19th and 20th centuries, the payoff for adventurers is somewhat huge: the Northern Lights (also called the Aurora Borealis), the Inuit people, and the abundant wildlife both on land and in the water. Equally thrilling is the city of Iqaluit on the island’s southeastern coast, mostly for its Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum that houses Inuit and Arctic exhibits, igloo-shaped St. Jude’s Anglican Church, and galleries showcasing and selling Inuit art. There’s also two excellent national parks: Sirmilik for its ice and snowfields, glaciers, mountains and bird sanctuary, and Auyuittuq for its high mountain peaks, dramatic coastal fjords, and famous Penny Ice Cap – the southernmost of Canada’s big ice caps that has a maximum elevation of 1,900 metres.

Get the shot: Stop at the Inuit community of Pond Inlet for mountain ranges, glaciers, geological hoodoos, drifting icebergs, and large pods of narwhal – the mysterious species of whale with an unusual unicorn-like long tusk.