Some of you may have noticed a "Manitoba" badge on my sidebar. I’m proud of where I’m from and like the idea of a central blog roll of blogs by Manitobans, both current ones and ex-pats like myself.
I’m also proud of where I live, up here in the High Arctic. There are only 27,000 of us living up here, and although there are many others who have lived here but now live in the south you can imagine that Nunavut bloggers are hard to find.
This past weekend I was bemoaning the fact that there wasn’t a Nunavumiut bloggers site, like the Manitoba one, and decided that I would start one. So I present to you Nunavut Blogs!, what I hope will become a comprehensive list of Nunavut bloggers.
At present I’m still playing with the layout etc. but I hope it will catch on soon and there will be a good list of Nunavut Blogs. I hope that it attracts blogs such as Nunablog, the blog of two teachers, Jennifer and Ian, who moved this year from the south to (Shh!!) they don’t want to say where (but this is a really small territory and it’s not too hard to figure out especially with pictures). Or Gone North, the blog of Michelle and Heidi, who have just (literally days ago) moved to Nunavut (a yet undisclosed location, I’m guessing somewhere in the Keewatin).
So if you are a current resident of Nunavut, or a former one, or just write extensively about the territory on your blog come visit Nunavut Blogs! Send me an email and I’ll link you to the site. There are badges there or you can just link to the site in return.
And just in case you think that Nunavut is the last outpost, hidden away from the technical wonders of the world, Iqaluit is in the news today as the worlds newest and largest airliner, the Airbus A380 landed there today for five days of cold weather testing. Just to put this behemoth into perspective, Arctic Bay has a population a little under 700, and about 40 or 50 of them would be under the age of two and could fly with an adult, at 555 passengers everyone in Arctic Bay except 100 unlucky souls would be able to fly in her at one time. Actually I’ve lived in two places that were small enough so everyone could be on the A380, with extra seats.
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And I would like to remind readers that Iqualuit had friggin’ high speed waaaaaayyy before us ‘southerners’ in Northern Ontario! Even before cities of 75,000 had it!
I look forward, Clare, to your amassing of Nunavitian Blogs; I can’t get enough of the scenery!
Nunavumiut. We’re Nunavumiut. Nunavitians were the people in the 7th episode of Lost in Space. I think.
And yep, we’re pretty cutting edge up here. I even found milk in the store this week that wasn’t expired.
Cool idea, Clare.
Interesting thing about high speed connections, we have neighbors a block away who don’t have it yet, and we’ve had it for almost two years! But, we can’t get cable tv here, not that I mind.