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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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2016-09-11
In St. Petersburg, many street-level windows on businesses and apartments have decorative metal security grilles. This one is a sunburst pattern that extends over two sections, covering the window opening. The sunburst begins with an arc in the lower right of the right section. Metal rods...
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2025-06-23
The \"midnight sun\", or the period when the sun does not set, begins in early June at the Arctic Circle. This photograph was taken at 0:14hrs in Rovaniemi. The patios were full of people enjoying the extended light and there were many cyclists on the streets.
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.jpg "Midnight Sun - view from hotel on Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, NWT")
2015-07-08
This photograph was taken at 12:34 a.m. on July 8, 2015. At that hour, sunlight is reflected off the tilted windows of the building in the foreground and also from some of the background buildings.
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2001-06-29
\"Low noon\" or midnight sun. 1.00 am June 29 2001, looking north from Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut.
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2016-07-10
This plume from an industrial process in Fairbanks, Alaska was white during the day. At 12:50 a.m., the sun rising over the mountains to the east turned the plume pink. This photo shows the Joy Elementary School at 24 Margaret Street in Fairbanks.
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2015-07-11
Mildred Hall School is on Franklin Ave, close to downtown Yellowknife. The school has basketball courts, which were in use until very late at night, because the midnight sun provides enough light to play.
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2004-01-01
Minke whale in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Minke whale surfacing in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Minke whale surfacing in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2017-10-22
Tamarack is a larch that is found in boreal forests around the circumpolar north. In late October, the tamarack in this mixed stand were still covered with their golden needles, standing in contrast with the dark green of the black spruce. Tamarack is a conifer, having cones, but unlike most...