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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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2014-01-21
This life preserver is on the upper deck of The Fram in The Fram Museum in Oslo Norway.
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2014-06-26
This light tracked, fully-articulated transport vehicle was designed in Sweden and used by the British Army in the NATO Northern Flank defense of Norway. This example is on display at Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford, England.
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.jpg "Lingonberry painting on the south exterior wall of the Yelloknife Inn")
2015-07-09
This is one of a series of paintings of berries affixed to the south exterior wall of the Yellowknife Inn.
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2016-07-16
Parts of the city of Fairbanks, Alaska are heated with underground steam and hot water heating systems. Integral to these systems are steam vents, which are dotted around the downtown area. Many of these have been painted by local artists, sponsored by local businesses and organizations. This...
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%20(2).jpg "List of bands from Mid-Sweden")
2018-06-11
These lists were part of a museum exhibit about local musicians and bands. The exhibit accompanied a KISS exhibit at the National Museum of Jamtli in Ostersund, Sweden. The list also includes names of venues where the bands played
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2025-07-07
This rustic sculpture by Peter Jonsson is found in Badhusparken in central Sweden. The sculpture is a large head roughly carved from wood, placed on a low tree stump. On top of the head is a rusted gas lantern. The title Ljushuvud which translates \"Bright Person\" is a pun.
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2015-07-09
In Yellowknife's Old Town a number of historic cabins have been pulled together and preserved. These two are on skids, which allowed them to be pulled to different locations. The one on the left is made of sawn lumber, while the one on the right is a notched log building. The shingles visible...
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.jpg "Log house on the north bank of the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska")
2016-07-14
This two-storey log house is visible from the Chena River. Some of the logs were not trimmed back to the front wall of the house. Flower baskets hang from two of these. Historically these poles were used as storage, sometimes frozen game was hung here in the winter. The house has a metal roof,...
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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...
