Southwest Highways September 2013 | Page 30

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Night at Aurora Village

-Fanpop

Welcome to our brand new section of the magazine, The Great White North. Each month you will read about a diferrent place in the Canadian arctic territories. Many people think that these territories are barren swaths of ice populated with igloo dwellers. A good chunk of the region is treeless tundra, but there are hundreds-of-thousands of square miles of boreal forest, not to mention thousands of lakes, and Canada's highest mountain.

I hope you enjoy reading about the pristine nature, unique towns, and amazing experiences of the great white north.

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Blue-green aurora

Near Ft. Resolution, NWT

-Karl Johnston