Tuktoyaktuk, often shortened to Tuk, is a small Inuvialuit hamlet on the shore of the Arctic Ocean in the Northwest Territories of Canada, at the northern edge of the mainland on the Beaufort Sea. It sits amid the Mackenzie River delta in a treeless landscape of tundra, lakes and pingos, ice-cored hills that push up from the flat land; the Pingo Canadian Landmark nearby protects one of the world's greatest concentrations of them. Traditionally a hunting, fishing and whaling community, Tuk is now famous as the place where you can drive to the Arctic Ocean: since 2017 the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway has extended the Dempster Highway all the way to the coast, and visitors mark the journey by dipping a toe in the icy sea. It is reached by that highway from Inuvik or by air. The climate is harsh and subarctic, with long, bitterly cold winters and brief, cool summers under the midnight sun.
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