Talk:Inuvik, Northwest Territories
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That update for the town population is strange. I got the initial information also from the town website. It seems that in one place they have 1996 information and in the other they've got 2000 information. -- Michael 02:16 20 May 2003 (UTC)
- Per the Statscan Community Profile as of 2001, pop is 2894, down from 3296 in 1996. Samaritan 01:13, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I could not make heads or tails of this, so removed it to here for external editing.
- Access is via the Dempster Highway for the majority of the year. Closure during the time for ice to form and allow a winter road, and to thaw to allow the ferry to run. At these times, air access only. When the Mackenzie flows there is a commercial barge service from Hay River, on the Gt.Slave Lake to the communities or the whole of the western artctic, including the north coast of Alaska.
If this block could be clarified, answering questions like "when is closure time?" and "when is thaw time?" and "what do ferries have to do with the Dempster Highway?" and that sort of thing, the information itself does belong in the article. -- Michael 08:47 28 May 2003 (UTC)
I moved this url: *A "virtual tour" of the town out of the article since it kept coming up as a 404 error. Should anyone else like to find out if it moved, they can find it here. --Displaced Raleighite 00:43, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Having driven the length of the Dempster in January, and on across the ocean ice road to Tuk, I can offer a possible edit for the paragraph:
- Access is via the Dempster Highway for the majority of the year. The Dempster is impassable during the spring and fall months and access is only possible via air, as 2 large rivers on the highway are only crossable via ferry in the summer or ice road in winter. When the Mackenzie flows there is a commercial barge service from Hay River, on the Gt.Slave Lake to the communities along the whole of the western arctic, including the north coast of Alaska. Access via ground from Tuktoyaktuk to the north is only possible in winter over an ice road extending across a section of the Arctic Ocean and down the Mackenzie River which is rated for 65,000 pound loads.
67.183.136.163 08:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)Paul Berg
