Wager Bay - Nunavut
Just fifty miles south of the Arctic Circle, Wager Bay is one of the best places on earth to see Polar Bears, the Arctic's largest and most solitary land mammal. During the brief Arctic summer, when the snow and ice give way to a bare, wind-swept landscape of moss and wildflowers, Polar Bears are forced inland by the ice floe's retreat. The bears, deprived of their winter hunting grounds along the edge of the floe ice, subsist on virtually no food until the ice forms again in the fall. As the autumn approaches and the air grows colder, crowds of hungry bears gather along the water's edge, awaiting the ice's return.

Herds of caribou graze the summer tundra, the racks of male caribou silhouetted dramatically against the blue of the sky. Tundra wolves, playful Arctic hares, and wolverines can also be sighted along the bay's rocky shores.