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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
- 232Campbell, Sandy
- 175Seale, Linda N.
- 9Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 3Lukasewich, Megan
- 2Canadian Circumpolar Institute Archive
- 128Photographs
- 56Antarctic Peninsula
- 55Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 21Gentoo penguins
- 21Spitzbergen, Norway
- 19Penguin rookeries
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2012-06-15
This live Arctic fox was on display at the Denver Zoo.
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2000-08-01
View of Arctic Bay, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, from the breakwater. Traditional sod and canvas summer house on the shoreline, far left next to the blue boat. White 'matchbox' house to the right (behind the white boat), an example of wooden housing provided by the Canadian federal...
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2008-08-04
An Arctic 'picnic table' made from driftwood at Diskobukta, SE coast of Edgeoya, Spitzbergen, Norway, outside a hunter's hut on the beach. August 2008
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2012-03-11
Arctic SunWest Charters is based in Yellowknife and provides passenger and freight service from Yellowknife Airport and a float plane base on Great Slave Lake. Photograph taken March 2012
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2001-06-01
Dwarf willow at Bathurst Inlet, Nunvaut, late June 2001
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2014-06-26
This Auster T7 was modified for the 1956 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Dr. Vivian Fuchs. In addition to being painted bright orange to make it more visible in the snow and ice, it was modified so that it could be fitted with skis or floats, had larger tail surfaces and additional...
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2025-06-07
Sign for Badhusparken or Bath House Park, a beach park in central Sweden. A trail loops through the wooded area behind the beach. Along the trail there are numerous folk-art installations created by local residents. Most are visual jokes or have puns embedded in their titles.
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2004-01-01
Bailey Head, on Deception Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, is one of the largest known penguin rookeries, extending beyond the top of the first slope from the sea. Deception Island is a drowned caldera (volcanic crater) covered in black volcanic sand from the last eruption in 1970. ...
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2001-09-01
Bathurst Inlet Lodge, Nunavut, is the former Hudson's Bay Company trading post. HBC buildings are distinguished by the black four sided roof, red and white paint, and the white stones lining pathways. The Nunavut territorial flag is on the left. The Lodge, and the houses for several Inuit...
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2001-06-01
Sea ice melting on the shore at Peregrine Point, Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut. The ice contracts into vertical candle-like shapes, a process known as candling, and melts with a tinkling bell-like sound. Photograph taken June 2001.