The entire territory of Nunavut is in the tundra. Nothing grows in the tundra because it is too cold. The tundra is smooth and a little bumpy. Mostly it is flat. Plants need water, air and warmth to grow. Nunavut has water and air, but not enough warmth to sustain plant life. So it probably looks really dead because there are no plants, and plants makes a place look alive and pretty.
Nunavut does have some rugged mountains and glaciers in the northeast. Some of them are 2000 metres high. There are low, sandy marsh, muskeg, and long tidal flats in the southwest. People say the landscape is striking because it is so stark. They also talk about the thunderous silence of this Territory as being unlike any sound heard anywhere else.
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