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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
- 134Photographs
- 31Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 122015/07/08
- 112015/07/10
- 11Sculpture - Polar Regions
- 62015/07/09
- 134Campbell, Sandy
- 1Bergh, Arne - (Sculptor)
- 1Gimpel, Charles
- 1Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 1Iyerak, Alain
- 1Johnston, Mike
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2011-06-06
New spruce shoots or needles are a lighter and brighter green than the older needles. These new needles have been used in Traditional and Indigenous Healing.
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2015-07-08
This totem pole stands near the avenue in front of City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT. It was carved at Nitinhat, B.C., by carver, Frank Knighton and donated in 1971 by the People of British Columbia.
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2015-07-08
This lighthouse sits on top of a commercial building on Franklin Avenue in Yellowknife. A sign at the Tourist Information Centre reads, \"A Northern Lighthouse is a specially designed community space weather beacon that indicates when conditions are right for geomagnetic storms caused by the...
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2015-07-10
Yellowknife is the closest centre to Canada's three largest diamond mines. The NWT Diamond Centre is both an interpretive centre and sales outlet for diamonds. In addition to display cases housing diamond jewelry for viewing and sale, photographs and a video educate visitors to the geology of...
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2011-06-07
This stainless steel mill is located here because there is a chrome mine in nearby Kemi. Photographs were allowed only from outside the gates of the mill.
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2015-07-08
This work is one of many that are found on the exterior of buildings in Yellowknife. This work is painted on several pieces of plywood nailed together. The image includes a landscape with spring on the left and winter on the far right. The winter sky shows the aurora borealis. Animals include...
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2015-07-08
The plaque reads: Peace River Flats. The promise of gold drew families north in the 1930's and 40's. Many an Alberta farm boy built a barge to float \"down north\" on the Peace and Slave Rivers and sail across Great Slave Lake to Yellowknife. These settlers were attracted to this flat expanse...
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2025-07-16
On the return ferry trip from Drottningholm, four men on personal watercraft played around the stern as we entered the harbour. They entertained us with sharp turns that sent up huge sprays of water.
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2025-07-17
Pea gravel in ice causes differential melting, leaving the surface of the ice pock-marked.
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2011-09-18
This polar bear was taken many years ago in the Yukon. The skin is mounted on two layers of red heavy cotton fabric. The skin was acquired by a private collector, located in western Alberta, in about 2000.