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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
- 8Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Alberta Aviation Museum
- 3Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 1AALCO (Anglo American Leather Company) (Decorator)
- 134Photographs
- 55Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 37Russia, St. Petersburg
- 21September, 2016
- 17Arctic flowers
- 16Public Art - Polar Regions
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2011-01-01
This horsetail plant was growing in the back yard of an inn in Rovaniemi. It was 47cm from ground to tip. Equisetum or horsetail is a spore producing vascular plant. Members of this genus are abundant around the world and the family is widely represented in the fossil record.
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.jpg "Examples of Northern Canadian publications in various languages, dialects and scripts")
2017-03-07
In Arctic Canada, government agencies, Indigenous organizations and private organizations publish in a variety of languages, dialects and scripts. Often materials are published in several different linguistic editions. Two of the pictured volumes are published by the Government of Nunavut and...
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-20(2).jpg "Female moose alongside the road in Denali National Park, Alaska")
2016-07-16
This cow moose was browsing in the willows alongside the road in Denali National Park. She seemed unafraid of the tour bus and eventually moved off into the bush.
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.jpg "Finnish National Dress held at the Sointula Museum, British Columbia")
2016-06-18
This National Dress was donated to the Sointula Museum by Sylvia Johnson. The dress was made for her mother. Traditional Finnish attire for women often incorporates a long sleeved white blouse, with a sleeveless short tunic a skirt (often showing vertical stripes of bright colours) and an...
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.jpg "Finnish Sami (Lapland) doll (circa 196?) held at the Sointula Museum")
2016-06-18
This doll wearing traditional Finnish Sami dress is on display at the Sointula Museum on Malcom Island, B.C.
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2021-08-29
When the fireweed seed pods dry and crack open, each pod releases a large volume of fluff for its size. The wind then disperses the seeds and fluff.
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.jpg "Fireweed seed pods")
2021-08-29
After the fireweed flowers have dropped, the purple-red seed pods are left. These eventually break open to release seeds with fluff attached. The seeds are blown by the wind.
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2014-06-30
Ernest H. Shackelton wrote The Heart of the Antarctic being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1907. The Shackelton Memorial Library at the Scott Polar Research Institute holds six first edition copies.
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.jpg "Fish press or salmon press at Chena Village, Alaska")
2016-07-14
When salmon is dried, it twists and curls. When the salmon is bundled it needs to be compressed to be more easily carried on a sled. This simple fulcrum press compacts the salmon so that it can bundled tightly.
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.jpg "Fishing net weights made from wood and birch bark")
2018-06-19
These Nätsänken (net sinkers) or weights for fishing nets are held at Jamtli, the regional museum of Jämtland and Härjedalen in Östersund, Sweden. They are constructed of wood bent into a circle and a birch bark pocket across the centre to hold a stone for weight. A stone can be seen in the...