Backstroke Flags in Nunavut

The City of Iqaluit operates the territory's principal aquatic facility. The Iqaluit Aquatic Centre opened in January 2017 and has a six-lane, 25 metre lap pool alongside a leisure pool, a lazy river and a waterslide. Soon after it opened, the Iqaluit Breakers Swim Club formed as the first official swimming club in Nunavut, recognised by Swimming Canada; by 2019 it had around 48 swimmers aged 8 to 18, training in that pool.

Swimming Canada lists no territorial section for Nunavut, so there is no territory-wide governing body in the way Swim Ontario or Swim BC exists. The facility rules that apply to sanctioned competition are Swimming Canada's, and they are the same here as anywhere else in the country.

If the Iqaluit lap pool's six lanes are the standard 2.5 metres, the span is about 15 metres, which takes 33 flags per line at the published 0.45 metre pitch, or 66 flags for both ends. That is an estimate from the lane count; the width between the stanchions should be measured before anything is ordered, which matters more here than anywhere because a wrong order cannot be corrected quickly.

Nunavut has no road connection to southern Canada. Goods arrive either by air freight, which is fast and expensive, or by sealift during the open-water shipping season, which is far cheaper and runs only for part of the year.