It includes everything east of a line stretching from the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary to the Arctic coast facing Greenland. Northerners want the split. A 1982 plebiscite on division passed with a 57 per cent majority across the North. And in 1992, about 85 per cent of Inuit who voted approved the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, which promised to create Nunavut in exchange for their giving up aboriginal rights to traditional lands. About 25,000 people, roughly 85 per cent of them Inuit.
Northern winters are nine months long.
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