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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
- 140Campbell, Sandy
- 2Alberta Aviation Museum
- 1Campbell, Sady
- 1Campell, Sandy
- 1Falkholt, Carolina (Painter and Graffiti Artist)
- 1Isabel Ferriera (artist)
- 23Russia, St. Petersburg
- 14Arctic flowers
- 14September, 2016
- 13Arctic plants
- 6Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden - Tromsø, Norway
- 6Botanic Gardens - Arctic Regions
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2016-09-11
This curb cut in a sidewalk at ta crosswalk in St. Petersburg was under repair in September 2016. The combination of frequent freezing and thawing of water trapped around the bricks, combined with the heavy traffic of a crosswalk, causes the bricks to heave, shift and deteriorate. Concrete and...
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Brightly painted reindeer (caribou) in front of the Arctic Light Hotel in Rovaniemi, Finland
Download2018-06-12
This brightly painted reindeer was one of several artworks on the street near the Arctic Light Hotel in Rovaniemi.
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2025-03-28
Austrian Pine, Pinus nigra, is a species common to Southern Europe. These trees are found as landscape introductions in northern regions. Austrian pines have bundles of needles that tend to point upwards and collect snow.
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.jpg "Carpet beaters for sale in Östersund, Sweden")
2018-06-17
Carpet beaters are readily available in supermarkets in Östersund, Sweden. Beating carpets is still a common method of cleaning them. Some apartment blocks have communal carpet beating racks.
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.jpg "Cast Iron Balcony in front of architectural decoration in St. Petersburg, Russia")
2016-09-13
This balcony railing displays a diaper or scale pattern. On top and bottom are borders with Greek key or Greek fret pattern. The balcony door behind is flanked by Greek figures and plaster decorations including vegetative motifs, garlands, medallions and Greek key pattern.
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2024-06-13
Cathedral of Our Lady is an important religious building in Tromsø, Norway. It is a small wooden church, built in 1861 and the northernmost Roman Catholic cathedral.
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2024-06-09
A small flower of the avens family. It was collected from Smorvik in Jonkoping Kommun, Jonkopings Lan, Sweden and was blooming in early June at the Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden in Tromsø, Norway.
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2005-05-21
Residents near Oulu, Finland used these flat-bottomed boats to row upstream to church near Oulu, Finland.
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2024-06-08
There were many clusters of Clusius' gentian blooming in early June at the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden (latitude 69.6769° N). They grow close to the ground and have vibrant purple-blue trumpet shaped flowers.
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2018-06-18
In a large apartment development, some of the green space has been converted to alottments, where people grow vegetables and flowers. In this image there are potatoes, chives, peonies and rhubarb. The netted structures covered strawberries.