Operation NUNALIVUT 2013

English/Anglais

CX2013-A006-04

17 April 2013

Resolute Bay, Nunavut

 

Captain Brian Sullivan (Right), Captain Lee Burrows, both Pilots with 440 (Transport) Squadron based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Corporal Brian Peers (rear), Flight Engineer also from 440 (Transport) Squadron, retrieve cached fuel barrels at the Parks Canada warden station at Tanquary Fiord, Nunavut, during Operation NUNALIVUT on 17 April, 2013.

 

Operation NUNALIVUT 2013 is one of the major sovereignty operations conducted every year by the Canadian Armed Forces in Canadaís North. This year's operation will exercise Canadian sovereignty and to demonstrate the Canadian Armed Forcesí capability projection in the High Arctic during winter.

 

Operation NUNALIVUT runs from 2 to 30 April, 2013, in the northwestern portion of the Arctic Archipelago with the Task Force Headquarters located in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. The Operation will involve approximately 120 Canadian Armed Forces men and women under the Command of Joint Task Force (North).

 

Photo by: Cpl Pierre Letourneau,

19 Wing Imagery Comox,

© 2013 DND-MDN Canada

 

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