We know that Canada's north is a gorgeous place, but it rarely looks as beautiful as it does in a Nunavut contest that aims to capture life in the territory, "one photo at a time."
Every week, the Finding True North blog asks Instagram users to tag their photos of the region with the hashtag "#Nunagram," with winners announced every Sunday.
The contest has yielded some absolutely breathtaking photos that show a cold landscape teeming with life.
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Northern Lights Photos By Yuichi Takasaka
British Columbia(01 of71)
An aurora borealis is reflected in British Columbian waters on September 6, 2010. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Quadrantid meteors streak across the sky above Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, in 2009. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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This digitally fused panorama was captured from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, and includes the Pleiades open cluster of stars just to the upper right of the Moon. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Yuichi Takasaka was leading a group tour in March 2014 when they saw a massive fireball explode overhead. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Yuichi Takasaka was leading a group tour in March 2014 when they saw a massive fireball explode overhead. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Yuichi Takasaka was leading a group tour in March 2014 when they saw a massive fireball explode overhead. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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To compose the picture, many short exposures were digitally combined to follow the concentric star trail arcs while including the greenish auroral curtains also known as the Northern Lights. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Prosperous Lake, near Yellowknife, with the harvest moon shining from the left side of the frame. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Green auroras sweep across the night sky above Fairbanks, Alaska. A bright streak — possibly a meteor — was also captured in the frame. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Star trails swirl through candy-colored auroras over Sugar Lake, B.C.This long-exposure picture illustrates how stars seem to rotate around what's known as the celestial north pole, an imaginary point in the sky closest to the star Polaris—the dot of light at top left—that seems to intersect the Earth's axis of rotation. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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As seen through a fish eye lens, a green aurora arcs above northwestern Canada's Yukon Territory.Taken at midnight, the picture also shows stars trailing around the north celestial pole — the point in the sky around which all the stars observed from the Northern Hemisphere rotate. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Hidden Lake Territorial Park near Yellowknife. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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Fairbanks, Alaska. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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A total lunar eclipse sequence looking southwest down Kalamalka Lake toward the lights of Coldstream, British Columbia. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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A Perseid Meteor Shower captured over Vancouver in 2008. Two of the two-second frames shot over 93 minutes captured the flash of a Perseid fireball as it tracked across the top of the field of view. (credit:Yuichi Takasaka)
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These shots of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) were taken on Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014 in Vancouver and Burnaby, B.C. by Natasha Wheatley, aka The Aurora Hunter. (credit:Natasha Wheatley)
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Northern lights spotted over downtown Edmonton. (credit:Twitter, @wallytee )
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Aurora Borealis outside of Fort Saskatchewan (credit:Twitter, @adolwyn )
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Northern lights over Edmonton. (credit:Twitter, @CocoFemmeFatale)
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Even with bright moon light and city lights one could still observe the Aurora Borealis over Calgary 10:30pm Sept 30. (credit:Twitter, @matthewbrucker)
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Even with bright moon light and city lights one could still observe the Aurora Borealis over Calgary 10:30pm Sept 30. (credit:Twitter, @DRBlend)
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Even with bright moon light and city lights one could still observe the Aurora Borealis over Calgary 10:30pm Sept 30. (credit:Twitter, @astrogeo)
From Space(38 of71)
This one, from Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield. (credit:@Cmdr_Hadfield)
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This gallery shows images of the northern lights captured by photographer Paulo Cabazal between Oct. 8 and 9, 2013.
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