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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
- 232Campbell, Sandy
- 175Seale, Linda N.
- 9Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 3Lukasewich, Megan
- 2Canadian Circumpolar Institute Archive
- 128Photographs
- 56Antarctic Peninsula
- 55Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 21Gentoo penguins
- 21Spitzbergen, Norway
- 19Penguin rookeries
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2015-07-09
Franklin Ave (50th Ave) is one of the main avenues of Yellowknife. It runs southwest to northeast through the downtown, the Old Town and out to the Pilots' Monument. This image, taken from 46 St. looking southwest includes some of the taller buildings in Yellowknife's downtown.
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2015-07-11
Many buildings in Yellowknife are heated with fuel oil. Fuel oil is stored in tanks attached to the buildings.
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2015-07-11
Frame Lake in Yellowknife, NWT was, historically, a Dene fish camp. Since about 1930, the lake has been steadily polluted until, today, winter oxygen levels are too low to support a fish population. Frame Lake is a dead lake. A collaboration of interested groups including Northwest Territories...
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguin on a stone nest, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, off the Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguin and chick on a stone nest, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, off the Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguin feeding a chick at the Almirante Brown Research Station (Argentina : abandoned), Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguin and chick at Almirante Brown Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguin with 2 chicks, Almirante Brown Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguins and chicks at Livingston Island, South Shetlands, off the Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2004-01-01
Gentoo penguins (the two birds with beaks raised to vertical) exchanging 'ecstasy calls', the greeting of one bird to another on return from the sea. Petermann Island, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004