Cheap Coral Harbour Vacation Packages
Coral Harbour is a small Inuit community on Southampton Island in Nunavut, Canada. It derives its name from the fossilized coral that are found in the nearby South Bay. It has a flat terrain consisting of coastal marine features, pasture, fresh water inlets and ice-capped regions, and can thus be best travelled on foot for longer stretches.
Coral Harbor is where you should be if you are looking for an Arctic wildlife, adventure sports, archaeological sites, some sightseeing in typical Tundra setup and a relatively unknown site of Second World War and Cold War- all at the same place. Visitors do take a liking for ecotourism here because of the sheer number of flora and fauna present here- including fish, walruses, polar bear, caribou, seals, falcons, geese and polar bears among others. For outdoor enthusiasts, there are multiple offerings in skiing, dog sledding and snowmobiling that can be best availed during October and June. With numerous dedicated trails here for hiking and mountain biking and ample opportunities to go fishing for the famous Arctic Char fish, there’s little you’d care to ask for.
Places of Interest in Coral Harbor
Fossil Creek Trail
The Fossil Creek Trail scores top marks for the best collection of fossils in Nunavut. It has numerous remains of the creatures that used to roam here millions of years ago, a description that often includes dinosaurs. The trail is full of informative signage that tells a distinct tale of the profound geological history of this place.
East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary
The East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary is located in Southampton Island, about 45 miles away from Coral Harbour. As one of the world’s biggest migratory birds’ sanctuary (it spans nearly 440 square miles), it is a safe haven for a large number of bird species including Arctic terns, Atlantic brants, black-bellied and golden plovers, black guillemots, herring and Sabine's gulls, jaegers, ruddy turnstones, king eider ducks, red knots and red phalaropes, white-rumped sandpipers, oldsquaws, Canada geese and red-throated loons. If you are an avid bird-watcher, you possibly can’t miss it.