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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
- 428Campbell, 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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2016-09-11
In St. Petersburg, it was not uncommon to see people fishing in the canals.
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2024-06-08
Manhole covers in Tromsø, Norway have a rectangular shield with a reindeer and a crown on top. Below are the words Tromsø Kommune (Tromsø Municipality). Surrounding the shield are rows of small raised squares. The central image is surrounded by three circles of larger raised squares and two...
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2011-06-09
Rhododendron tomentosum or Marsh Labrador Tea, is a circumpolar plant, growing across Northern North America, Nothern Europe and Asia. Traditionally, it was used as an herbal remedy. This particular plant was growing at the Santa Clause Forest, near Rovaniemi in Finland
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2024-06-07
The area around Prestvannet Lake in Tromsø, Norway is boggy. There are several small streams feeding into the lake. Marsh marigolds grow along the streams.
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.jpg "McDonalds restaurant sign with address in St. Petersburg, Russia")
2016-09-14
This sign for a McDonalds restaurant in St. Petersburg gives the address as TRK (Track) "Zhemchuzhnaya Plaza".
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2001-06-01
Stone meat cache formerly used by Inuit at Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut. June 2001
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2024-06-08
These Himalayan blue poppies, native to Bhutan, were on display in Tromsø University Museum's Arctic–Alpine Botanic Garden (latitude 69.6769° N). The plant tag indicates that the plant was collected in 2018 in Bhutan. These poppies typically have four petals with an orange centre.
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2025-06-02
This commemorative medallion is attached to a large rock outside the entrance to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters at High Cross, Madingly Road, Cambridge, UK. The inscription reads: \" Headquarters, British Antarctic Survey was opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, 16th...
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2007-06-09
Great Solovetsky is so wet and boggy, that the runway is completely covered with interlocked metal strips. These are slippery when wet. Our plane skidded when we landed and hit one of the runway lights.
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2025-06-04
This sculpture stands outside the main building of the University of Oulu.