Only a cluster of frame houses, snow huts and translucent plastic igloos on the barren southern coast of Baffin Island, it is the trading station for some 320 Eskimos living in scattered three-and ...

The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

Longhouses and Haida houses both had fires and some also had smoke holes. Igloos did not have large fires. The Inuit uses oil lamps, so there were no large smoke holes. Longhouses and Haida houses ...

Igloos were usually temporary dwellings. The Inuit would follow move to follow the animals they hunted. Igloos only took a few hours to build. In the summer they would erect hide tents. Haida houses ...