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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
- 175Seale, Linda N.
- 9Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Alberta Aviation Museum
- 3Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 134Photographs
- 56Antarctic Peninsula
- 56Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 37Russia, St. Petersburg
- 24Arctic flowers
- 24September, 2016
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.jpg "Entrance to Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden")
2011-05-30
Skansen is an open-air living history museum containing farm and village settings representing many periods in Sweden's history. It is located on a hill on the island, Djurgården, in Stockholm.
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.jpg "Entrance to the Amethyst Mine at Lampivarra, Finland")
2018-06-13
This is a surface mine, so the entrance is the top of a long covered stairway that descends the surface of the hill and leads out onto a hillside strewn with shattered rock. The stairway and cover are made of wood. A peeled rail fence runs along the edge of the hill to the entrance. The sign on...
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2015-07-08
The NWT Legislative Assembly Building was built so that it is integrated into the surrounding environment. A concrete path leads up to the doors in glass wall which forms the front of the building.
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2011-01-01
This horsetail plant was growing in the back yard of an inn in Rovaniemi. It was 47cm from ground to tip. Equisetum or horsetail is a spore producing vascular plant. Members of this genus are abundant around the world and the family is widely represented in the fossil record.
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.jpg "Examples of Northern Canadian publications in various languages, dialects and scripts")
2017-03-07
In Arctic Canada, government agencies, Indigenous organizations and private organizations publish in a variety of languages, dialects and scripts. Often materials are published in several different linguistic editions. Two of the pictured volumes are published by the Government of Nunavut and...
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-20(2).jpg "Female moose alongside the road in Denali National Park, Alaska")
2016-07-16
This cow moose was browsing in the willows alongside the road in Denali National Park. She seemed unafraid of the tour bus and eventually moved off into the bush.
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.jpg "Finnish National Dress held at the Sointula Museum, British Columbia")
2016-06-18
This National Dress was donated to the Sointula Museum by Sylvia Johnson. The dress was made for her mother. Traditional Finnish attire for women often incorporates a long sleeved white blouse, with a sleeveless short tunic a skirt (often showing vertical stripes of bright colours) and an...
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.jpg "Finnish Sami (Lapland) doll (circa 196?) held at the Sointula Museum")
2016-06-18
This doll wearing traditional Finnish Sami dress is on display at the Sointula Museum on Malcom Island, B.C.
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2021-08-29
When the fireweed seed pods dry and crack open, each pod releases a large volume of fluff for its size. The wind then disperses the seeds and fluff.
