Churchill is a small remote community in northern Manitoba, Canada roughly 110 kilometres (68 miles) from the Manitoba and Nunavut border.  Churchill is along the Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River on the 58th parallel North far above most Canadian populated areas. Churchill is far from any other towns or cities, with Thompson, approximately 400 km (250 mi) to the south, being the closest larger settlement.  Manitoba’s provincial capital, Winnipeg, is approximately 1000 km (620 mi) south of Churchill.

The small community stands at an ecotone, on the Hudson Plains, at the juncture of three eco regions: the boreal forest to the south, the Arctic tundra to the northwest, and the Hudson Bay to the north.  Churchill lies just south of the parallel of Stockholm, Sweden, and just north of that of Inverness, Scotland.  Churchill was named after John Churchill in 1686, the 3rd governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Duke of Marlborough.