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TIL In 2023, Canada's Quttinirpaaq National Park, located about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole, received new management plan to strengthen Inuit engagement on research, tourism and infrastructure. Between 2008 and 2017, an average of 17 people visited the park annually

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