NANUK POLAR BEAR LODGE
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Travel to a Land that Time Forgot
Northern Manitoba is one of the most pristine wilderness areas left in the world. Only a two-hour plane journey north of Winnipeg lies the coastline of Hudson Bay – an area so remote that it hasn’t changed in thousands of years. Churchill Wild has been the premier eco-outfitter in northern Manitoba for over 40 years, and we are excited about introducing you to Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge, the only tourist camp along a 100-mile stretch of Hudson Bay coastline. We promise that you won’t find a better place, anywhere in the world, for close encounters with polar bears.
In the wintertime, this land is cloaked in darkness for 20 hours a day. The wind howls across jagged ice and temperatures can reach 40 below zero. These forbidding conditions make an ideal environment for Ursus maritimus, the world’s largest terrestrial predator. During the six month-long northern night, hundreds of polar bears stalk the ice floes of Hudson Bay, hunting seals. And when the ice breaks up in June, the polar bears move ashore to pass the summer. During the warm months they socialize and prowl the shoreline, restlessly waiting for the ice to return. Many of them spend their summers with us within a few miles of our Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. During an average season, up to 400 bears pass by the lodge.
What makes this population of bears so unique is the high concentration of mother bears and cubs. At Nanuk, you will encounter polar bears every day, and often, these will be mothers with their offspring. Many of these bears have never seen a person before, and they have the calm demeanor of bears that have not learned to fear people. After your visit with us you will be among a small group of lucky individuals who have seen these majestic animals up close, undisturbed. These are not habituated “Park bears” or hunted bears that run at the sight of humans. These are pure, wild polar bears living the way they have lived since time began.
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Contact Address:
Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge
PO Box 79
Kleefeld, Manitoba
Canada R0A 0V0
Ph: 204-377-5090
Fax: 204 377-4748
Tollfree:
1-866-U-GO-WILD
1-866-846-9453
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