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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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2016-07-14
The Chena River at Faribanks, Alaska was the site of many gold dredging operations. The Pump House restaurant is a reconstructed building decorated with gold rush era objects. Among these are buckets from the dredges which have been repurposed as flower beds. This is one of two that sit at the...
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1965-09-01
Pouring liquid gold into a mould to make gold bricks, Giant Mine, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965. Anyone able to carry the 12.5 kg brick one-handed to the Post Office in town, over 3 km away, could keep it. The price of gold was then about CAN$35 per ounce (28 g)
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2014-05-19
Prince George Heritage Commission interpretive board on the river bank reads \"The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway began construction for this great bridge in August 1913. When completed in [not legible word], 1915, it was 810 meters long, just over a mile. The bridge was designed by G.T.P.R ...
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2004-01-01
Icebergs in the Grandidier Channel, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Icebergs in the Grandidier Channel, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2015-07-09
Green alder is common across Canada's north. Female (green) and male catkins both visible in the photograph.
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2015-07-10
The Greenstone Building faces Franklin Avenue in Yellowknife and houses Government of Canada Offices.
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2015-07-09
This ground juniper was beside the board walk that leads up the side of The Rock, to the Pilots' Monument. Many parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The berries are eaten as food.
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2014-01-22
Gustav Vigeland created the world's largest sculpture park by one person at Frogner in Oslo, Norway. He was born in 1869 and died in 1943. This sculpture is in the Vigeland Sculpture Park. The collection includes more than 300 sculptures.
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2024-06-06
Gyllenborg Primary School is located Skolegata 34/ 36 in Tromsø, Norway. It is a five story building. It has a grey exterior with red window frames. Marit Bockelie's mosaic "The Rooster" is located on the exterior wall. A wooden school was opened on this site in 1900, with building of a stone...