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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
- 56Antarctic Peninsula
- 21Gentoo penguins
- 21Spitzbergen, Norway
- 19Penguin rookeries
- 18Livingston Island
- 18South Shetlands
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2000-08-01
Lichens (Xantheria elegans) on rocks near Pond Inlet, Nunavut. August 2000
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2000-08-01
Disused coal mine workings at Longyearbyen, Spitzbergen, Norway. The town was a coal mining centre founded in 1905 by John Munro Longyear, an American businessman. Now dependent on tourism, education and northern research. The pillars are part of an overhead transport system for coal. August...
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2000-08-01
View of Longyearbyen, Spitzbergen, Norway, originally a coal mining centre founded in 1905 by John Munro Longyear, an American businessman. Now dependent on tourism, education and northern research. The pillars are part of a former overhead transport system for coal. August 2008
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2004-01-01
A pair of macaroni penguins (with yellow feathers on the face) amid a rookery of chinstrap penguins and young, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, off the Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2001-06-01
Stone meat cache formerly used by Inuit at Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut. June 2001
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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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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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-20-20Monaco-20Glacier.JPG "Monaco Glacier, Spitzbergen - photograph")
2010-11-12
The Monaco Glacier reaches sea level on the north coast of Spitzbergen, Norway. The fresh water flowing under the glacier mixes with sea water and creates the turbulence visible in the photograph. This brings sea life to the surface and attracts thousands of sea birds to the area. August 2008