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Circumpolar Digital Image Collection
The Circumpolar Digital Image Collection is a collection of photos, slides, other images and contributions shared by many of the University of Alberta’s polar researchers. Images in the collection may be used for teaching and research purposes. For any other use, please contact the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
Items in this Collection
- 428Campbell, Sandy
- 8Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Alberta Aviation Museum
- 3Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 1AALCO (Anglo American Leather Company) (Decorator)
- 134Photographs
- 55Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 37Russia, St. Petersburg
- 21September, 2016
- 17Arctic flowers
- 16Public Art - Polar Regions
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2010-01-01
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is located in the brown building in the upper left of the photograph. The Institute's substantial polar library is housed in this building. The ships and U-boat in the Old Harbour are part of the German Maritime Museum (Deutsches...
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2024-06-09
This wild onion grows at high altitudes in Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. It was in bloom at the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden (69° 40' 36.48" N)
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2025-03-28
Elm is a deciduous tree, so its branches are bare in the winter. It has many small fine branches, which do not capture snow well. Only the larger branches accumulate snow.
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2017-03-07
Animals are an essential part of Inuit world view and day-to-day life. The knowledge of the relationship between people and animals is passed down through oral tradition from older people to children. These stories are now being captured as children's fiction. In these four works published by...
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2024-06-12
This hand cranked sewing machine is on display at the Perspektivet Straumen Farm on Kvaløya Island in northern Norway. It is a portable sewing maching which would have originally had a domed lid that latched into the two metal openings on either end of the stand. The machine is shown with a...
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2024-06-12
Most of the beds at the Straumen Farm in Tromsø Municipality, Norway, were of this design. The headboard and foot board are the size of a single bed, but one of the side-rails pulls out to expand the bed to a double bed. This design expands the sleeping surface at the same level, while most...
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2015-07-11
Black flies and mosquitoes can be quite unpleasant in some seasons in Yellowknife. Screening balconies, as in this example, keeps the bugs out and makes the space usable for more of the season.
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1987-07-30
The Arctic Brotherhood Hall was constructed in 1899. The facade is constructed of pieces of driftwood.
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2010-01-01
The Arctic Centre is a major polar research organization. The Centre includes a substantial polar library and museum
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2012-06-15
This live Arctic fox was on display at the Denver Zoo.