North of North is the freezing story about Siaja (Anna Lambe), an optimistic mother who weathers the challenge of transforming her reputation in her small arctic town.
Reinventing herself proves to be difficult since everyone knows each other’s business and has heard the recent news of her split from her husband.

Siaja goes through the peaks and valleys of life on her own, trying to find a new job, being a mother and making new relationships along the way.

Siaja, an Inuk woman, faces her fellow neighbors, but more importantly, the tundra she and her neighbors live on has fans curious as to where North of North was filmed.

Was the show filmed on a comfy set in Hollywood, or was it shot in the freezing Arctic?

Here’s what we know. Keep reading to find out.

Where was North of North Filmed?

North of North is making history! According to ScreenRant, Ice Cove, the show’s fictional town, was actually Iqaluit, which sits in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Iqaluit is Canada’s most northern city, and North of North is the first major television show to be filmed in the arctic.

Lambe is an Iqaluit native, and she spoke with DECIDER about what it was like to film in the town. “There’s always a little piece of you that’s like, ‘What are people going to think of me?’” Lambe said. But getting to Iqaluit and actually filming, it was completely fine.” Lambe was anxious because many of the show’s extras were members of the Iqaluit community.

ScreenRant also reported that the show was shot during the spring, displaying the beautiful landscape and longer hours of sunlight. Depicting the beautiful culture was a priority to the show’s executive producer Miranda de Pencier, who told ScreenRant, “Every element of the fictional town is intentionally crafted to reflect the authentic values and traditions of diverse Inuit communities. From the beautifully stylized costumes that bring the characters in North of North to life to the incorporation of the Inuktitut language and music by the best throat singers, the series takes care to honor and celebrate Inuit culture at every turn.”

Beyond using the real landscape for the show, Lambe also told DECIDER how the show reflects her culture. She said, “Our communities are just so full of warmth and are so welcoming, and there’s just so much brightness and joy, and there’s also a lot of hardship and a lot of trauma that Inuit have experienced due to colonialism.

“But the way that we navigate that and the way that we come together is through humor and I think this show was such a good example of that and it’s just exciting for people to really see Nunavut, the Arctic, Inuit as we truly are and as we know ourselves and to be able to kind of control the way that we’re represented and what feels most authentic to us is really exciting,” she shared.

North of North is now available on Netflix.