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This hill which one sees and who dominates this white and frozen landscape resembles a small volcano... and yet, its heart is in ice!
It is a pingo (name of inuit origin ), a hill of ice covered with ground.
These original formations that one finds in the Arctic areas are the result of the transformation of a water mass located close to the permafrost and which at the time of the cycles alternating the periods of freezing or thaw raises the ground while dilating.
Here in Tuktoyaktuk, a sight of the pingo Ibyuk, the most imposing of the Canadian Arctic, it is 49 m high for 300 m large.

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