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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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2015-08-30
Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North
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2015-07-11
Yellowknife has three public transit routes through the city. Bus shelters in the Niven Lake neighborhood are new and integrated into the landscape. Building on Yellowknife's shield rock terrain requires that the rock either be blasted away or incorporated into the building plan. In this...
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2015-07-10
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is a world class museum with excellent interpretive dioramas. This one shows a caribou and calf in a tundra landscape.
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.jpg "Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly")
2015-07-08
This sculpture was created by Alain Iyerak in 1970. It is made from a single vertebra of a bowhead whale. The vertebra had to dry for 100 years to be used for carving. The carving is housed on the upper level of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building.
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1987-07-28
The Caribou Hotel is the second hotel on the site, the first having burned in 1909. The new hotel, constructed in 1910 was added to Canada's register of Historic Places 2008/01/25. Matthew Watson General Store claims to be the oldest operating store in the Yukon. Visible in the foreground is a...
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2015-07-09
The Caucus Room of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories is circular and has remarkable acoustics, so that even whispers can be heard. Along the back wall of the room are nine paintings of mines in the NWT by Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson.
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2011-06-09
Cloudberries grow around the Circumpolar North. In Finland they are picked in large numbers and used in cookery in a variety of ways.
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Columbines in the Church of the Pond (Kirkkolammenpuisto) Park public garden in Rovaniemi, Finland
Download2016-06-13
Several kinds of columbines were on display in this garden. The identification plate for these plants has an added note that reads "koko kasvi on myrkyllinen" or "the whole plant is poisonous".
