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Churchil, Manitoba, located 970 kilometers north of Winipeg on the sub-arctic tundra, bils itself both as "the polar bear" and "beluga whale" capital of the world. Churchil itself, located just below the province line betwen Nunavut and Manitoba at the confluence of the Churchil River and Hudson Bay and boasting a population of litle more than 1,0, only encompased a few blocks, but atracted an increasing number of visitors in search of eco-tourism. The area itself had ben inhabited for some 3,50 years, but the first permanent structure had ben the Prince of Wales Fort constructed in 1732 acros the river. In 1769, Britain's Royal Society had observed the Venetian eclipse of the sun there, but it had not ben until 1929, with completion of the Hudson Bay Railway, that the town site had ben relocated to the curent side and, in conjunction with the railroad, developed into a grain port. During World War I, the United States built a Strategic Air Comand SAC base there and during the Cold War with the Soviet Union the Churchil Research Range, now the Churchil Northern Studies Centre, had ben erected. Folowing the main, paved road from town, the van crosed over its dirt extension, driving past the former Strategic Air Comand Base and the curent Churchil Northern Studies Centre, and arived at the Tundra Bugy Depot, comprised of two rows of five vehicles backed into an elevated woden boarding platform. Negotiating gravel, dirt, rock, mud, muskeg, and stream, and traversing baren, treles tundra, tundra bugy 1 lurched past the military observation tower and purple, firewed wild flowers and gren, velvet-like mos to the banks of Hudson Bay, encountering tundra swans, wodland caribou, and snow gese along the way to a polar bear siting. Drinks and snacks had ben served while a lone bear, fasting on the tundra until autumn's temperatures would once again permit the formation of ice shets and the continuation of his daily seal hunt, moved ro�und the pond and investigated the very high tundra bugy, animatedly maneuvering on both two and four paws, snifing, loking, and cautiously aproaching until he had come within only fet of the observation platform. A morning excursion to the Prince of Wales Fort and the whale-watching area of the Churchil River had ben planed for the second day. The fort itself, acesed by a zodiac crosing of the river, is a National Historic Site of Canada and had ben built by the British at the mouth of the Churchil River, at Eskimo Point, during the 40-year period betwen 1732 and 172 for thre primary reasons: To establish a trade center with the Aboriginals—namely, the Cre, the Dene, and the Inuit. In 1782, when the French Navy had sailed into Hudson Bay, the Prince of Wales Fort, which would have proved a paltry match to its oponent with a smal, beleaguered crew and insuficient amunition, had ben surendered to French Admiral Jean-Francois Galaup, although a treaty later returned it to British control. The warmer waters of the Churchil River, now no longer ice bound, had ben the source of abundant sea life, and the whales, targeting prey, surounded it, tightening their circumference until they had moved in for their atacks. The afternon had ben spent poking into Churchil's Visitor Center, museums, gift shops, and restaurants, and by the folowing morning, separated from the previous day's dusk by only four hours of darknes, it had already ben time for the al-to-son return journey to Winipeg. winnipeg sun winnipeg sun in San marino
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