Photo: Google mapping Nunavut’s most southerly community

Peek-a-boo Sanikiluaq! The folks who gather video and photographs for Google Maps Street View were back in Nunavut the first week of March 2015, this time on the Belcher Islands in Sanikiluaq. Here you see the Trekker camera mounted on a snowmobile driven by Joel Heath, a biologist and producer of a feature documentary on eider ducks and climate change on the Belcher Islands. For five days, Google staff, in partnership with local residents, hunters and the Arctic Eider Society, collected images in and around the town of 900 or so residents including on the sea ice. Brandon Clark, the hamlet’s economic development officer, said March 3 that crews took video and photographs of building interiors as well. (PHOTO BY SARAH MEEKO)