Idlout was rescued Monday off an ice pan about 15 to 20 kilometres away from Resolute Bay, in Nunavut's High Arctic region. (CBC)

Military searchers in Resolute, Nunavut, have rescued a man from an ice floe in the Northwest Passage, where he had been stranded since Friday.

A Cormorant helicopter from CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia retrieved David Idlout from the ice pan, located about 15 to 20 kilometres south of the hamlet.

Idlout, 39, was taken to Resolute and was reported to be tired and cold, but otherwise in good condition, according to officials with the Canadian Forces Search and Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ont.

Blizzards had thwarted earlier attempts to rescue Idlout over the weekend. The helicopter was supposed to attempt a rescue on Sunday, but it was delayed overnight in Clyde River due to bad weather.

Idlout, an experienced hunter, had survival equipment and was not considered to be in immediate danger.

Hunter called by satellite phone

Idlout left Friday on a seal hunt and was snowmobiling at the edge of the sea ice, about 15 kilometres from Resolute, when a large chunk of ice broke free and he drifted out to sea.

The temperature is about –31 C, feeling like –40 C with the wind chill.

Searchers said he had a satellite phone with him and called his common-law spouse, Tracy Kalluk. She called her father, who called the coast guard. Idlout was able to build himself an ice shelter.

Over the weekend, searchers aboard a Hercules transport aircraft dropped supplies onto the floe that would help with Idlout's rescue, including a flashlight and a locator beacon.