離北極最近的小鎮(zhèn)你知道在哪里嗎？今天隨著大連信雅達(dá)翻譯公司到加拿大號(hào)稱北極小鎮(zhèn)的地方-圖克托亞圖克來看看吧！
One million antlers were set against the northern sky. Or so it looked from the vantage point of the revving snowmobile as it lurched across the tundra basin. Around 3,000 wild reindeer had bunched together on the horizon, their branched horns seamlessly melding with an endless swathe of skeletal willow and black spruce. We were 60km south of the Arctic Ocean in the remote northern reaches of Canada’s Northwest Territories, and left to Mother Nature it was a spectacle unaffected by man for millennia.
無數(shù)鹿角戳向北方的天際，當(dāng)我們乘坐的雪地摩托車彎彎拐拐疾馳過苔原盆地，看到的便是這般風(fēng)景。三千頭野馴鹿聚集在地平線上，它們枝丫一般的鹿角，和綿延無盡的枯柳、黑云杉融為一片。我們身處北冰洋以南60公里、加拿大西北疆域的極北邊地，這片留給大自然母親的凈土，千百年來人類都未曾染指過。
Hidden deep at the top of the country’s largely unexplored Arctic perimeter, Canada’s largest reindeer herd have long lived in solitude. Every spring, the scruffy animals migrate west to their calving grounds on nearby Richards Island to rear their young.
深藏于加拿大幾乎尚未開發(fā)的北極圈內(nèi)最北端地區(qū)，這個(gè)加拿大規(guī)模最大的鹿群已在荒野中與世隔絕地生活了千百年。每年春天，這群變得臟兮兮的動(dòng)物就向西遷徙到理查茲島附近的產(chǎn)子之地，孕育自己的后代。
For the last two millennia, the only people who have been able to understand and adapt to this land are the Inuvialuit, the custodians of the north who live in settlements across the Mackenzie Delta, where Canada’s longest river system empties into the Arctic Ocean.And yet even though this is a lifeline for the remote indigenous Inuvialuit community of Tuktoyaktuk (population: 850).As if divorced from its own country, the village sits segregated on a spit of land jutting out into the Arctic Ocean. There are no sugar maple or spruce, or any trees for that matter – only endless ocean, the cold grey waves frozen and paused.
在過去的兩千年里，唯一能理解、適應(yīng)這片土地的，就是北方的看門人——因紐維阿勒伊特人。偏遠(yuǎn)的圖克托亞圖克是加拿大大陸的冰原邊緣最后一個(gè)北極村莊，有原住民因紐維阿勒伊特人850名。他們定居在麥肯齊河三角洲，在那里，加拿大最長的河流匯入了北冰洋。這座村莊遠(yuǎn)離自己的國家，獨(dú)自坐落在伸向北冰洋的尖端地帶。沒有糖楓樹，沒有云杉，反正什么樹都沒有，只有無邊無際的海洋，和凍結(jié)了的冷灰色海浪。
