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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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2011-01-01
Historic marker on Pilots' Monument ('The Rock') in the Old Town area of Yellowknife, NT. The Monument is a high point that originally held the town water tanks but is now dedicated to the bush pilots and air engineers. In summer the monument has a signal light on top that flashes when a float...
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2008-08-04
Polar bear on the gravel beach at Diskobukta, SE coast of Edgeoya, Spitzbergen, Norway : hunter's hut. August 2008
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2008-08-01
Polar bear in attack position on the edge of the polar pack ice : 82 degrees north, 600 miles from the North Pole. Photograph taken from the MV Akademik Sergei Vavilov, August 1 2008, about two hours after a total solar eclipse.
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2008-08-02
Polar bear footprint at Worsleyneset, Lefdfjorden, north coast of Spitzbergen, Norway. August 2008
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2000-08-01
Display marking the celebrations for the creation of Nunavut, April 1 1999, showing the Nunavut flag and an Inuktitut name, Mitimatilik ('the place where Mitiima is buried'). Taken August 2000
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2004-01-01
Area known as 'Port Foster' at Deception Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, where whaling ships anchored because it is furthest from the entrance to the bay and is most sheltered. Deception Island is a drowned caldera (volcanic crater) covered in black volcanic sand from the last eruption in...
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2000-08-01
Qilakitsoq, on an island near Uummanaq, west coast of Greenland : former Inuit camping place with house remains and rockpile graves. August 2000
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2000-08-01
Qilakitsoq, on an island near Uummanaq, west coast of Greenland : former Inuit camping place with house remains and rockpile graves ; view out to sea. August 2000
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2000-08-01
Seabeach sandwort (Honckenya peploides) near Pond Inlet, Nunavut. August 2000
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2008-08-01
The ship Akademik Sergei Vavilov at the edge of the pack ice, 82 degrees north, off the north coast of Spitzbergen, Norway, shortly after a solar eclipse, August 1 2008