Cambridge Bay (Jan 31/05) - If they ever decide to make a "Dora the Explorer" movie, based on the antics of the popular doll, Mea Aitaok of Cambridge Bay might want to ask her mom if she can audition for the part. The lead role might well be hers.

In a recent look-a-like contest organized by the recreation department in Cambridge Bay just before Christmas, Aitaok showed up dressed like the popular little doll, with her hair done in a similar fashion.

Aitaok and her animated pal were just one of many pairs to compete in Cambridge Bay's first ever - to anyone's knowledge - look-a-like contest.

Grade 5 student Hayley Maghagak, 10, and her cousin, Jessica Anaktak, 9, in Grade 4, have been taken for twins for as long as they can remember.

Maghagak said people have always mixed her and her cousin up, but it doesn't bother her.

Anaktak's parents entered the pair in the contest. One of their moms managed to find the exact same light pink top for them to wear.

People in the community hall smiled and clapped for the "twins" during the contest. Both girls said they didn't mind the attention. In fact, they both agreed they'd enter the contest next year.

"My mom thought I was Hayley," said Anaktak with a laugh.

Both students won the same prize: plastic Crazy Carpets.

Rosie Kupeuna is four years older than her sister Margo Neglak, but ever since they were young girls, people have assumed they were twins.

"We had fun," said Kupeuna, a Grade 6 teacher in Cambridge Bay. "When we heard about the contest, everybody said we should enter."

"There was only one time in our lives when someone ever really mixed us up, and that was in Yellowknife," recalled Kupeuna. "My sister went ahead of me in a taxi cab to our sister's graduation from school there.

"When I got into the cab, the taxi driver said, 'Hey, didn't I just pick you up?'"

Kupeuna took the Look-a-Like contest pretty seriously, going out and buying two green blouses especially for the occasion.

The sisters received make-up kits as prizes, which they both decided to give to their daughters.