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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
Nanisivik lead-zinc mine on Strathcona Sound, Baffin Island, Nunavut, in operation 1976-2002, the first Canadian mine north of the Arctic Circle. Wharf and processing plant on the shoreline, mine to the right. August 2000.
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2000-08-01
Notice at the airstrip on Borden Peninsula, northern Baffin Island, describing the Nanisivik lead-zinc mine on Strathcona Sound, Nunavut [then Northwest Territories], the first Canadian mine north of the Arctic Circle, in operation 1976-2002. Photograph taken August 2000.
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2012-03-10
Information plaque on the wall of a drugstore on Franklin Avenue, the main street of the New Town section of Yellowknife, documenting the expansion of the city under the direction of the federal government in 1945-1946, from the original settlement of Old Town which developed after the discovery...
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2008-07-30
Northernmost railway in the world (disused) at Ny Alesund, on Kongsfjord, west coast of Spitzbergen, Norway, former coal mine site, now an international research station. August 2008
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2000-08-01
Northernmost post office and store in Europe at Ny Alesund, on Kongsfjord, west coast of Spitzbergen, Norway. Ny Alesund was formerly a coal mining centre, now an international research station with about 30 scientists in winter, 130 in summer. Photograph taken August 2008.
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2012-03-10
View of Old Town, Yellowknife, from the ice on Yellowknife Bay. Pilot's Monument at the top of the hill commemorates early bush pilots and also has a flashing light that warns if a small plane is about to land or take off in the channel between Old Town and Jolliffe Island. Photograph taken March...
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2004-01-01
Pale faced sheathbill and Gentoo penguin at Almirante Brown Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004. The penguin has both an egg and a very small chick at its feet
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2008-08-02
Patterned ground resulting from repeated freeze and thaw cycles, or frost heave, at Worsleyneset, Lefdefjorden, north coast of Spitzbergen, Norway. August 2008
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2000-08-01
Patterned ground resulting from repeated freeze and thaw cycles, looking NE from the Nanisivik airstrip on the Borden Peninsula, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut towards Bylot Island. August 2000
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2004-01-01
Young chinstrap penguins at Livingston Island, South Shetlands, off the Antarctic Peninsula. The 'chinstrap' is a horizontal black line below the beak which will be visible when the chicks are fully fledged. January 2004