Auyuittuq National Park, Canada
One sharp summit
In this northerly place, Norse myth is the go-to source for land feature names, but we're nowhere near the Nordic nations. Hardly a trick of the eye, the super-pointy peak dominating this Baffin Island landscape is titled after the trickster god Loki, and its nearby counterparts include Mount Thor, Mount Odin and Mount Asgard. This scenic, ice-caked corner of Nunavut is managed cooperatively by Canada and the local Inuit as Auyuittuq National Park—a name that's not Norse but Inuktitut, translating to 'land that never melts.'
One sharp summit
In this northerly place, Norse myth is the go-to source for land feature names, but we're nowhere near the Nordic nations. Hardly a trick of the eye, the super-pointy peak dominating this Baffin Island landscape is titled after the trickster god Loki, and its nearby counterparts include Mount Thor, Mount Odin and Mount Asgard. This scenic, ice-caked corner of Nunavut is managed cooperatively by Canada and the local Inuit as Auyuittuq National Park—a name that's not Norse but Inuktitut, translating to 'land that never melts.'
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