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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
- 8Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 1AALCO (Anglo American Leather Company) (Decorator)
- 1Alberta Aviation Museum
- 1Bergh, Arne - (Sculptor)
- 128Photographs
- 54Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 142015/07/08
- 142015/07/10
- 14Public Art - Polar Regions
- 12Sculpture - Polar Regions
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2025-07-07
This rustic sculpture by Peter Jonsson is found in Badhusparken in central Sweden. The sculpture is a large head roughly carved from wood, placed on a low tree stump. On top of the head is a rusted gas lantern. The title Ljushuvud which translates \"Bright Person\" is a pun.
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2015-07-09
In Yellowknife's Old Town a number of historic cabins have been pulled together and preserved. These two are on skids, which allowed them to be pulled to different locations. The one on the left is made of sawn lumber, while the one on the right is a notched log building. The shingles visible...
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.jpg "Log house on the north bank of the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska")
2016-07-14
This two-storey log house is visible from the Chena River. Some of the logs were not trimmed back to the front wall of the house. Flower baskets hang from two of these. Historically these poles were used as storage, sometimes frozen game was hung here in the winter. The house has a metal roof,...
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2015-07-08
The Garden of Hope is near the shore of Frame Lake. This rock stands near the entrance. A sign near the entrance reads: \"GARDEN OF HOPE Loranie Frances Minish-Cooper (1951 - 2002)\". \"Loraine believed in the power of hope and it was her wish that this garden would be a place of hope, peace...
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2025-07-12
The Setra lumber mill is located on the west side of the Kalix River, in the town of Kalix at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia. A map of the mill site is shown in the photograph. This mill is one of the largest employers in Kalix
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2011-06-09
Rhododendron tomentosum or Marsh Labrador Tea, is a circumpolar plant, growing across Northern North America, Nothern Europe and Asia. Traditionally, it was used as an herbal remedy. This particular plant was growing at the Santa Clause Forest, near Rovaniemi in Finland
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2025-07-02
This commemorative medallion is attached to a large rock outside the entrance to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters at High Cross, Madingly Road, Cambridge, UK. The inscription reads: \" Headquarters, British Antarctic Survey was opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, 16th...
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2025-07-04
This sculpture stands outside the main building of the University of Oulu.
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2025-07-23
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.