Known as the “polar bear capital of the world,” the town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, with its approximately 800 permanent residents, is perched on a spit of land between the western shore of Hudson Bay and the Churchill River. For centuries, this peninsula has been the polar bear’s natural point of access to the bay. After a summer of fasting on land in which the bears can lose half their body weight, the bears make Churchill their autumn stopover while waiting for the sea to freeze.
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