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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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2024-06-12
From the descriptive panel outside the exhibit: "The sealing vessel MS Polstjerna was built in 1949 and was designed to withstand the conditions of the Arctic Ocean. The vessel sailed for 33 hunting seasons and brought home more than 97,000 seals." The vessel sits in a dry-dock, with a glass...
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.jpg "Mural at Valtakatu 24 in Rovaniemi, Finland")
2018-06-15
This image is part of a triptych called "Firewall" by Swedish artist Carolina Falkholt, painted in 2013. This mural is on the end of a building at Valtakatu 24 in Rovaniemi, Finland. The other parts are in Luleå (Sweden) and Severomorsk (Russia). This mural covers the whole end of the building...
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.jpg "Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks")
2016-07-12
The Museum of the North is a striking white building on the upper west side of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, located at 907 Yukon Dr, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States. The Museum has a strong teaching and research mandate. The lower level of the Museum houses collections, as...
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2000-08-01
Nanisivik lead-zinc mine on Strathcona Sound, Baffin Island, Nunavut, in operation 1976-2002, the first Canadian mine north of the Arctic Circle. Wharf and processing plant on the shoreline, mine to the right. August 2000.
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2000-08-01
Notice at the airstrip on Borden Peninsula, northern Baffin Island, describing the Nanisivik lead-zinc mine on Strathcona Sound, Nunavut [then Northwest Territories], the first Canadian mine north of the Arctic Circle, in operation 1976-2002. Photograph taken August 2000.
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2015-07-10
Yellowknife is expanding. This construction site is on the west side of the City. In the right foreground there is rubble created by blasting the shield rock to create a more even surface upon which to build.
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2011-06-06
New spruce shoots or needles are a lighter and brighter green than the older needles. These new needles have been used in Traditional and Indigenous Healing.
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2012-03-10
Information plaque on the wall of a drugstore on Franklin Avenue, the main street of the New Town section of Yellowknife, documenting the expansion of the city under the direction of the federal government in 1945-1946, from the original settlement of Old Town which developed after the discovery...
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2015-07-08
This totem pole stands near the avenue in front of City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT. It was carved at Nitinhat, B.C., by carver, Frank Knighton and donated in 1971 by the People of British Columbia.
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2024-06-07
This building, designed in 1917 by Søren Andres Wiese Opsahl, was a post office and telegraph office, later a police station and since 1985 has housed the North Norwegian Art Museum. It contains more than 2,225 works from Troms, Finnmark, Nordland, Troms and Svalbard.