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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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2015-07-08
White birch is common across Northern Canada.
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2015-07-08
This hair of a 36,500 year old bison was preserved in permafrost and found in 2007 by Shane Van Loon. It is currently on display at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Interpretive signs in the Museum tell us that the hair colour is similar that seen on European cave paintings of...
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2015-07-08
This is the skin of a 36,500 year old bison that was preserved in permafrost and found by Shane Van Loon in 2007.
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2015-07-08
This steppe bison skull is at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT. The bison skeleton with skin, hair and flesh attached was found by Shane Van Loon in 2007 emerging from an eroding riverbank. The skull is 36,500 years old.
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2009-06-02
Bears on Broadway was an exhibit of individually painted concrete polar bear statues presented by the Winnipeg Foundation in 2005. Many of the bears continue to be exhibited in sponsors' spaces. However, eighteen of the bears are located on the south lawn of the Manitoba Legislature. Each bear...
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.jpg "Vegetable garden at Fort Edmonton Park")
2015-08-14
The Fur Trade Fort is a replica of the 1846 fort, which was located downstream on the site of the Alberta Legislature grounds. The original fort had a garden to supply vegetables to the fort's occupants. This year, the garden to the north of the fort is producing cabbage, corn, potatoes,...
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Vendor pushes a sled filled with frozen fish to his stall in the open-air meat and fish market in Yakutsk, Russia
Download2014-11-25
The open-air meat and fish market in Yakutsk, Russia offers frozen fish, meats, berries, mushrooms and vegetables, as well as some clothing. Most of the fish come from lakes and rivers in the Sahka Republic, while some are imported. The meats include horse, reindeer, beef and pork. The meat is...
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2014-05-18
View of Prince George taken from the Botanic Garden at University of Northern British Columbia.
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2011-06-01
After a boat had passed by, the waves from the wake moved toward the banks. The Kemijoki River flows from northern Finland, joins the Ounasjoki River at Rovaniemi and then flows out to the Gulf of Bothnia near Kemi.
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.jpg "Wander Lake in the Wedgewood Wildlife Sanctuary, Fairbanks, Alaska")
2016-07-08
Wander Lake is within the 75 acre Wedgewood Wildlife Sanctuary. There are several hiking trails in the Sanctuary, including one that loops around the lake.