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Ice road

Index Ice road

An ice road (ice crossing, ice bridge) is a winter road, or part thereof, that runs on a naturally frozen water surface (a river, a lake or an expanse of sea ice) in cold regions. [1]

129 relations: Airship, Aklavik, Altappen, Anadyr (town), Archipelago Sea, Attawapiskat First Nation, Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–45), Bathurst Inlet, Behchokǫ̀, Beringovsky District, Beryozovo, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Bilibino, Bois Blanc Island (Michigan), Cat Lake First Nation, Clinton Creek, Colville River (Alaska), D Division, Dalton Highway, Deer Lake First Nation, Deh Cho Bridge, Dettah, Diavik Diamond Mine, Eabametoong First Nation, Elliott Highway, Events of National Historic Significance, Fort Providence, Fort Severn First Nation, Gamèti, Gamla bron, Garden Hill First Nation, Gary and Joanie McGuffin, Georgina Island, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Hailuoto, Highways in Nunavut, Hiiumaa, Hindersön, Hudson, Quebec, Ice, Ice bridge, Ice hotel, Ice pier, Ice Road Truckers, Ingraham Trail, Inuvik, Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway, Isön, Jericho Diamond Mine, John Denison (engineer), ..., Kashechewan First Nation, Kenora District, Kiana, Alaska, Kingfisher First Nation, Kuskokwim River, La Pointe, Wisconsin, Långön, List of Northwest Territories highways, List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada, Luleå archipelago, Mackenzie Highway, Mackenzie River, Manilaid, McDowell Lake First Nation, Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan), Moose Factory, Moosonee, Muhu, Muskeg, MV Louis Cardinal, Mys Shmidta, Neskantaga First Nation, Nibinamik First Nation, Nivkh people, Norman Wells, North Spirit Lake First Nation, Northern Ontario Resource Trail, Northstar Island, Northwest Angle, Northwest Territories, Nuiqsut, Alaska, Oka, Quebec, Ontario Highway 125, Peawanuck, Pevek, Poplar Hill First Nation, Prohibition in Canada, Pukatawagan, Rainy Lake, Remote and isolated community, Riverhurst Ferry, Road, Road of Life, Roads in Finland, Roads in Saskatchewan, Robert-Bourassa generating station, Russian salvage ship Kommuna, Rustefjelbma, Saaremaa, Sandy Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Highway 42, Seven Wonders of Canada, Shamattawa First Nation, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, Snow removal, Snow road, St. Theresa Point First Nation, Stor-Brändön, Storsjön, Tana (Norway), Tibbitt Lake, Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, Transportation in North America, Transportation in Saskatchewan, Truck driver, Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, Tuktoyaktuk/James Gruben Airport, Types of road, Ugolnye Kopi, Verkhoturye, Vjatšeslav Leedo, Wekweeti, Winter road, Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, Yellowknife, Yellowknife Highway, Yup'ik, 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash. Expand index (79 more) »

Airship

An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power.

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Aklavik

Aklavik (Inuvialuktun: Akłarvik) (from the Inuvialuktun meaning barrenground grizzly place) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Altappen

Altappen and Likskär are two islands in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago, which have joined due to post-glacial rebound to become a single island.

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Anadyr (town)

Anadyr (p; Chukchi: Кагыргын, Kagyrgyn) is a port town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that protrudes into Anadyrsky Liman.

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Archipelago Sea

The Archipelago Sea (Finnish: Saaristomeri, Swedish: Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters.

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Attawapiskat First Nation

The Attawapiskat First Nation (Cree: ᐋᐦᑕᐙᐱᐢᑲᑐᐎ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ, "People of the parting of the rocks"; unpointed: ᐊᑕᐗᐱᐢᑲᑐᐎ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ) is an isolated First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the Attawapiskat River on James Bay.

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Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–45)

The Baltic Sea Campaigns were conducted by Axis and Allied naval forces in the Baltic Sea, its coastal regions, and the Gulf of Finland during World War II.

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Bathurst Inlet

Bathurst Inlet is a deep inlet located along the northern coast of the Canadian mainland, at the east end of Coronation Gulf, into which the Burnside and Western Rivers empty.

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Behchokǫ̀

Behchokǫ̀ (or (from the Tłı̨chǫ meaning "Behcho's place"), officially the Tłı̨chǫ Community Government of Behchokǫ̀, is a community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Behchokǫ̀ is located on the Yellowknife Highway (Great Slave Highway), on the northwest tip of Great Slave Lake, approximately northwest of Yellowknife.

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Beringovsky District

Beringovsky District (Бе́ринговский райо́н) was an administrative district (raion) of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, which existed in 1957Official website of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

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Beryozovo, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Beryozovo (Берёзово) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River.

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Bilibino

Bilibino (Били́бино) is a town and the administrative center of Bilibinsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located at the confluence of the Karalveyem and Bolshoy Keperveyem Rivers (Kolyma's basin), northwest of Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug.

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Bois Blanc Island (Michigan)

Bois Blanc Island is an island in Lake Huron coterminous with Bois Blanc Township, Mackinac County, Michigan.

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Cat Lake First Nation

Cat Lake First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation reserve approximately 180 kilometres northwest of Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario, Canada, located on the central north shore of Cat Lake.

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Clinton Creek

Clinton Creek was a company-owned and -operated asbestos mining town in western Yukon near the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers.

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Colville River (Alaska)

The Colville River (Inupiat: Kuukpik) is a major river of the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska in the United States, approximately long.

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D Division

The D Division is one of 15 divisions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and is headquartered in Winnipeg.

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Dalton Highway

The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a road in Alaska.

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Deer Lake First Nation

Deer Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation band government in Northern Ontario, located north of Red Lake, Ontario, Canada.

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Deh Cho Bridge

The Deh Cho Bridge is a long Canadian bridge across a span of the Mackenzie River on the Yellowknife Highway (Highway 3) near Fort Providence, Northwest Territories.

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Dettah

Dettah or Detah is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Diavik Diamond Mine

The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about northeast of Yellowknife.

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Eabametoong First Nation

Eabametoong, also known as Fort Hope or Eabamet Lake by Canada Post, is an Ojibway First Nation band government in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.

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Elliott Highway

The Elliott Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 152 miles (245 km) from Fox, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Fairbanks, to Manley Hot Springs.

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Events of National Historic Significance

Events of National Historic Significance (also called National Historic Events) (Les événements d'importance historique nationale) are events that have been designated by Canada's Minister of the Environment, on the advice of the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board, as being defining actions, episodes, movements or experiences in Canadian history.

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Fort Providence

Fort Providence (Slavey language: Zhahti Koe or Zhahti Kue "mission house") is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort Severn First Nation

Fort Severn First Nation is a Cree First Nation band government located on Hudson Bay and is the most northern community in Ontario, Canada.

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Gamèti

Gamètì (formerly known as Rae Lakes until 4 August 2005), officially the Tlicho Community Government of Gameti is a community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Gamla bron

Gamla bron (the old bridge) is Umeås oldest remaining bridge over Ume älv and is long.

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Garden Hill First Nation

Garden Hill is the second largest of 3 reserves of the Island Lake region.

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Gary and Joanie McGuffin

Gary and Joanie McGuffin are Canadian explorers, conservation photographers, writers, motivational speakers, documentarians and conservationists.

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Georgina Island

Georgina Island is the largest of the lake islands of Lake Simcoe, located in southern Ontario, Canada.

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Great Bear Lake

The Great Bear Lake (Slavey: Sahtú; Grand lac de l'Ours) is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron straddling the Canada–US border are larger), the fourth largest in North America, and the eighth largest in the world.

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Great Slave Lake

The Great Slave Lake (Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at, and the tenth-largest lake in the world.

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Hailuoto

Hailuoto (Karlö) is an island and a municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland.

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Highways in Nunavut

An estimated total of 850 km (530 mi) of roads and highways are spread across Nunavut.

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Hiiumaa

Hiiumaa (German & Dagö; Dagø; Hiidenmaa) is the second largest island (989 km²) in Estonia.

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Hindersön

Hindersön is an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago.

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Hudson, Quebec

Hudson, Quebec, Canada, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, with a population of 5,135 (2006 Census).

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Ice

Ice is water frozen into a solid state.

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Ice bridge

An ice bridge is a frozen natural structure formed over seas, bays, rivers or lake surfaces.

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Ice hotel

An ice hotel is a temporary hotel made up of snow and sculpted blocks of ice.

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Ice pier

An ice pier is a man-made structure used to assist the unloading of ships in Antarctica.

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Ice Road Truckers

Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that premiered on History, on June 17, 2007.

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Ingraham Trail

Highway 4, known as the Ingraham Trail, extends from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Tibbitt Lake, approximately east of Yellowknife.

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Inuvik

Inuvik (place of man) is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada and is the administrative centre for the Inuvik Region.

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Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway

Highway 10, more commonly known as the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway (or ITH), is a road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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Isön

Isön is a small island in lake Storsjön, Jämtland, Sweden.

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Jericho Diamond Mine

The Jericho Diamond Mine is a dormant diamond mine located in Canada's Nunavut territory.

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John Denison (engineer)

John Burton Denison (June 30, 1916 – January 6, 2001) was a Canadian ice road engineer who operated in the Northwest Territories in the 1950s-1970s.

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Kashechewan First Nation

The Kashechewan First Nation is a Cree First Nation band government located near James Bay in Northern Ontario, Canada.

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Kenora District

Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.

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Kiana, Alaska

Kiana (Katyaak or Katyaaq in Iñupiaq) is a city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Kingfisher First Nation

Kingfisher First Nation (Oji-Cree language: ᑮᐡᑭᒪᓂᐦᓰᐋᐧᐴᕽ (Giishkimanisiiwaaboong, "At Kingfisher-waters"); unpointed: ᑭᐡᑭᒪᓂᓯᐊᐧᐳᐠ) is an Oji-Cree First Nation reserve located north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

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Kuskokwim River

The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River (Yup'ik: Kusquqvak; Кускоквим) is a river, long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States.

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La Pointe, Wisconsin

La Pointe is an unincorporated community in the town of La Pointe, Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Långön

Långön is an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago.

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List of Northwest Territories highways

The following is a list of territorial highways in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada

Since Canadian Confederation in 1867, there have been several proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories.

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Luleå archipelago

The Luleå archipelago (Luleå Skärgård or Lule Skärgård) is a group of Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia.

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Mackenzie Highway

The Mackenzie Highway is a Canadian highway in northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

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Mackenzie River

The Mackenzie River (Slavey language: Deh-Cho, big river or Inuvialuktun: Kuukpak, great river; fleuve (de) Mackenzie) is the longest river system in Canada, and has the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi River.

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Manilaid

Manilaid is a Estonian islet in the Gulf of Riga, located between the island of Kihnu and the mainland's Tõstamaa peninsula.

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McDowell Lake First Nation

McDowell Lake First Nation (Oji-Cree: Misi-zhaaga'iganiing) is a small Oji-Cree First Nation band government located in Northern Ontario, located approximately 155 km northeast of Red Lake, Ontario, Canada, on the central western shore of McDowell Lake.

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Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan)

The Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (MHI) is divided into the Operations, Policy and Programs, and Corporate Services Divisions and the Communications Branch.

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Moose Factory

Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada.

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Moosonee

Moosonee (/ˌmusə'niː/) is a town in northern Ontario, Canada, on the Moose River approximately south of James Bay.

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Muhu

Muhu (Mohn/Moon; in Estonian also called Muhumaa), is an island in the Baltic Sea.

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Muskeg

Muskeg (maskek; fondrière de mousse, lit. moss bog) is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and boreal areas, although it is found in other northern climates as well.

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MV Louis Cardinal

MV Louis Cardinal is a Canadian ferry on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories.

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Mys Shmidta

Mys Shmidta (Мыс Шми́дта, lit. Cape Schmidt) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Iultinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located about southeast of the cape of the same name on the shore of the Chukchi Sea (a part of the Arctic Ocean), south of Wrangel Island, about from Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug.

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Neskantaga First Nation

Neskantaga First Nation (formerly known as Lansdowne House Indian Band) is a remote Oji-Cree First Nation band government in the northern reaches of the Canadian province of Ontario, situated along the shore of Attawapiskat Lake in the District of Kenora.

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Nibinamik First Nation

Nibinamik First Nation (Ojibway language: ᓃᐱᓇᒥᐦᐠ (Niibinamik, "Summerbeaver"); unpointed: ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ), also known as Summer Beaver Band, is a small Oji-Cree First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, located on the Summer Beaver Settlement that is connected to the rest of the province by its airport, and a winter/ice road that leads to the Northern Ontario Resource Trail.

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Nivkh people

The Nivkh (also Nivkhs, Nivkhi, or Gilyak; ethnonym: Nivxi; language, нивхгу - Nivxgu) are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur River estuary in Russia's Khabarovsk Krai.

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Norman Wells

Norman Wells (Slavey language: Tłegǫ́hłı̨ "where there is oil") is the regional centre for the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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North Spirit Lake First Nation

North Spirit Lake First Nation is a small Oji-Cree First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, located north of Red Lake, Ontario.

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Northern Ontario Resource Trail

The Northern Ontario Resource Trail is a mainly gravel road in the Canadian province of Ontario, which travels north from Pickle Lake to the northern shore of Windigo Lake.

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Northstar Island

Northstar Island is a artificial island in the Beaufort Sea, northwest of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and north of the Alaska coast.

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Northwest Angle

The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Nuiqsut, Alaska

Nuiqsut (Nuiqsat, is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 433 at the 2000 census and 402 as of the 2010 census.

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Oka, Quebec

Oka is a small village on the northern bank of the Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais in French), northwest of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Ontario Highway 125

King's Highway 125, commonly referred to as Highway 125, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Peawanuck

Peawanuck is an isolated Cree community in the Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.

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Pevek

Pevek (Певе́к; Chukchi: Пээкин / Пээк) is an Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (part of the East Siberian Sea) on a peninsula on the eastern side of the bay facing the Routan Islands, above the Arctic Circle, about northwest of Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug.

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Poplar Hill First Nation

Poplar Hill First Nation is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) First Nation band government, approximately 120 km north of Red Lake near the Ontario-Manitoba border.

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Prohibition in Canada

The prohibition of alcohol in Canada arose in various stages, from local municipal bans in the late 19th century, to provincial bans in the early 20th century, and national prohibition (a temporary wartime measure) from 1918 to 1920.

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Pukatawagan

Pukatawagan is a Canadian community about 210 kilometres north of The Pas in Manitoba.

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Rainy Lake

Rainy Lake (French: lac à la Pluie; Ojibwe: gojiji-zaaga'igan) is a relatively large freshwater lake straddling the border between the United States and Canada.

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Remote and isolated community

In Canada, the statistical designation remote and isolated community refers to a settlement that is either a long distance from larger settlements or lacks transportation links that are typical in more populated areas.

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Riverhurst Ferry

The Riverhurst Ferry is a cable ferry in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

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Road of Life

The Road of Life (Доро́га жи́зни, doroga zhizni) was the ice road winter transport route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the besieged city of Leningrad while the perimeter in the siege was maintained by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces.

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Roads in Finland

Roads in Finland comprise of highways, paved and gravel roads which are divided in four to five classes according to their local importance.

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Roads in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, the middle of Canada's three prairie provinces, has an area of and population of 1,150,632 (according to 2016 estimates), mostly living in the southern half of the province.

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Robert-Bourassa generating station

The Robert-Bourassa generating station (formerly known as La Grande-2) is a hydroelectric power station on the La Grande River that is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project in Canada.

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Russian salvage ship Kommuna

Kommuna is a submarine salvage ship in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.

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Rustefjelbma

Rustefjelbma (Ruostefielbmá) is a village in Deatnu-Tana Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Saaremaa

Saaremaa (Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish & German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring.

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Sandy Lake First Nation

Sandy Lake First Nation (or Negaw-zaaga'igani Nitam-Anishinaabe, Oji-Cree: ᓀᑲᐤ ᕊᑲᐃᑲᓂᐣ᙮) is an independent Oji-Cree First Nations band government.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Saskatchewan Highway 42

Highway 42 is a highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Seven Wonders of Canada

The Seven Wonders of Canada was a 2007 competition sponsored by CBC Television's The National and CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada.

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Shamattawa First Nation

Shamattawa is a community in Northern Manitoba, Canada and the location of the Shamattawa First Nation.

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Shoal Lake 40 First Nation

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is an Ojibway or Ontario Saulteaux First Nation reserve located in the Eastman Region of Manitoba and the Kenora District of Ontario.

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Snow removal

Snow removal or snow clearing is the job of removing snow after a snowfall to make travel easier and safer.

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Snow road

A snow road is a type of winter road, which is a road that is used or trafficable only in the winter.

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St. Theresa Point First Nation

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Stor-Brändön

Stor-Brändön is an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago.

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Storsjön

Storsjön (lit. "The Great Lake") is the fifth largest lake in Sweden, with an area of and a greatest depth of.

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Tana (Norway)

The Tana (Teno or Tenojoki; Deatnu; Tanaelva; Tana älv), is a long river in the Sápmi area of northern Fennoscandia.

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Tibbitt Lake

Tibbitt Lake is a lake in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

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Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road

Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road is an annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada.

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Transportation in North America

Transportation in North America is about a varied transportation system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles.

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Transportation in Saskatchewan

Transportation in Saskatchewan is the movement of people and goods from one place to another within the province.

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Truck driver

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Nepal and Pakistan) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck or dump truck).

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Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road

Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, an extension of the Dempster Highway, was an ice road on frozen Mackenzie River delta channels and the frozen Arctic Ocean between the Northwest Territories communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada.

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Tuktoyaktuk/James Gruben Airport

Tuktoyaktuk/James Gruben Airport is near Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Types of road

Roads have been adapted to a large range of structures and types in order to achieve a common goal of transportation under a large range of conditions.

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Ugolnye Kopi

Ugolnye Kopi (У́гольные Ко́пи, lit. coal mines) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located east of Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug, on the opposite side of the Anadyr River.

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Verkhoturye

Verkhoturye (Верхоту́рье) is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg.

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Vjatšeslav Leedo

Vjatšeslav Leedo (born 1952) is the stockholder of Saaremaa Shipping Company, and due to a number of controversial remarks, commonly recognised as the 'face' of the company.

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Wekweeti

Wekweètì (from the Dogrib language meaning "rock lakes"), officially the Tlicho Community Government of Wekweètì is a community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Winter road

A Winter road is built over land on compacted snow (also called snow roads), frozen tundra and bare ground, or on a floating ice cover.

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Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan

Wollaston Lake (/'wɒlɨstən 'lek/) is an unincorporated community on Wollaston Lake in the boreal forest of northeastern Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Yellowknife

Yellowknife is the capital and only city, as well as the largest community, in the Northwest Territories (NT or NWT), Canada.

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Yellowknife Highway

Highway 3, known more commonly as the Yellowknife Highway, but also the Great Slave Highway, connects Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Highway 1, from a junction north of the Alberta border.

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Yup'ik

The Yup'ik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Central Yup'ik, Alaskan Yup'ik (own name Yup'ik sg Yupiik dual Yupiit pl), are an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (including living on Nelson and Nunivak Islands) and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay.

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1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident (sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident; Thuleulykken) involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_road

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