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
- 414Campbell, Sandy
- 175Seale, Linda N.
- 9Beaudreau, Diane, biologist, artist
- 3Alberta Aviation Museum
- 3Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 134Photographs
- 56Antarctic Peninsula
- 56Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 37Russia, St. Petersburg
- 24Arctic flowers
- 24September, 2016
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2015-07-11
Yellowknife has three public transit routes through the city. Bus shelters in the Niven Lake neighborhood are new and integrated into the landscape. Building on Yellowknife's shield rock terrain requires that the rock either be blasted away or incorporated into the building plan. In this...
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2000-08-01
Bylot Island from the airstrip at Pond Inlet, Nunavut, across Lancaster Sound. Cotton grass in the foreground. Photographed August 2000
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2004-01-01
Overnight campout by expedition cruise members at Wordie House (abandoned British research station : the building is visible to the right of the picture) on Winter Island, Antarctic Peninsula, 65 27 South, 64 20 West, on 2 metres of snow, January 2004.
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2012-03-11
Canadian North is a northern aboriginal owned airline based in Yellowknife and serving Arctic Canada. This aircraft at Yellowknife Airport has the airline logo which includes a polar bear, the midnight sun and the Northern Lights (aurora borealis). The aircraft is a Boeing 727, the largest plane...
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2004-01-01
Cape petrel (Daption capense) in the Errera Channel, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2004
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2015-07-10
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is a world class museum with excellent interpretive dioramas. This one shows a caribou and calf in a tundra landscape.
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.jpg "Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly")
2015-07-08
This sculpture was created by Alain Iyerak in 1970. It is made from a single vertebra of a bowhead whale. The vertebra had to dry for 100 years to be used for carving. The carving is housed on the upper level of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building.
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1987-07-28
The Caribou Hotel is the second hotel on the site, the first having burned in 1909. The new hotel, constructed in 1910 was added to Canada's register of Historic Places 2008/01/25. Matthew Watson General Store claims to be the oldest operating store in the Yukon. Visible in the foreground is a...
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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.