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Churchill Manitoba - Polar Bear Center Of The World
Churchill Manitoba, situated on the west shore of Hudson Bay in north Manitoba, Canada, easily lives up to its moniker of Polar Bear Capitol of the Planet. This tiny village of only about 800 year-long residents lies right in the middle of one of the densest populations of polar bears anywhere.
What Makes Churchill Manitoba Polar Bears Unique
Only about 50 miles south of the town, near the Broad and Owl Rivers, is one of the densist denning areas for the bears in Canada. Huge, deep snowdrifts build up on the steep sides of the river banks, making for excellent snow dens for pregnant bear mothers to be.
In addition, this area is one of the first to freeze up in the autumn along the west side of the bay. The Churchill River, one of Canada's biggest, empties into Hudson Bay at the townsite, and the routinely north-south coastline takes an abrupt east-west turn, forming Cape Churchill. The large quantity of salt water in the river delta forms ice at a hotter temperature than pure sea water, and the frequent northwesterly winds then push the ice along the east-west shoreline of Cape Churchill.
Since the bears have been basically fasting all summer, they are keen to head out on the ice for the winter seal hunt, and the Churchill area's early freeze-up attracts the bears like a magnet. While the bears have been ashore in the area all summer, by late summer they start to collect along the shoreline of Hudson Bay, typically east of the village of Churchill. Much of this area is a component of a provincial animals management area and simply to the south is one of Canada's newest national parks, Wapusk Nationwide Park.
Prime Viewing Seasons for Churchill Polar Bears
In mid-October, the ponds start to form over with thin ice and the first snow falls on a regular basis. This is the beginning of a very passing, but popular traveller season. Huge tundra buggies with enormous tires and seating up to 50 visitors prowl the tundra attempting to find bears and other Arctic animals. This is the preferred means of observing bears, as it not only provides tourists with warm shelter from the cold winter temperatures, but safety also. Polar bears can tower more than ten feet tall on their hind legs and these vehicles put tourists just beyond grasp of curious bears.
The autumn season is only a little over a month total time, from mid-October to approximately the 3rd week of November, when Hudson Bay generally starts to freeze in the Churchill area.
Nonetheless since the bears are present in the locale after they venture off the sea ice in June, they can be watched in the summer too. In reality this is an excellent chance to watch them on the blooming tundra and other life and birdlife too.
Randy Green is a creator of the Churchill polar bear trips that have become enormously sought-after among wildlife enthusiasts in recent times. His site covers all sides of arranging a polar bear trip to Churchill.
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