Ron Wassink: First Supply Ships Arrive In Iqaluit #Nunavut

Ron Wassink: First Supply Ships Arrive In Iqaluit: "The first sealift supply ship arrived in Iqaluit on July 5. Two fuel tankers arrived a few days earlier. Here's the story in pictures of those first few days

of unloading a year's worth of supplies on Iqaluit's

Frobisher Bay beach.

Huge forklifts are brought to Iqaluit on the sealift ship.

These big machines are the first things to be unloaded

onto barges. The barges are pushed to the beach

unloading zone.

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