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2018-06-15

Campbell, Sandy

Norwegian currently has 8 Norwegian Air Boeing 737 MAX 8s in its fleet of about 150 aircraft. One of the most identifiable characteristics of this aircraft are the "winglets" or wingtip structures which reduce drag. The aircraft seats 189 passengers and has two pilots and a 4 person cabin...

2024-06-07

Campbell, Sandy

Norwegian flag hanging outside a shop in Tromsø in Northern Norway.

2024-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

This traditional Norwegian log farmhouse with a sod roof is located in Heritage Square in Red Deer, Alberta Canada. It has a fully equipped kitchen and showcases traditional Norwegian cultural objects including regional dresses, hardanger embroidery and rosemaling-style painting on household...

2018-06-22

Campbell, Sandy

This advertisement for vaccin.se, a Swedish website operated by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline AB was in the window of a metro train car in Sweden. It alerts riders to the dangers of tick-borne encephalitis and advertises a vaccination against the disease. Tick-borne diseases are...

2015-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

Yellowknife is the closest centre to Canada's three largest diamond mines. The NWT Diamond Centre is both an interpretive centre and sales outlet for diamonds. In addition to display cases housing diamond jewelry for viewing and sale, photographs and a video educate visitors to the geology of...

2000-08-01

Seale, Linda N.

Northernmost post office and store in Europe at Ny Alesund, on Kongsfjord, west coast of Spitzbergen, Norway. Ny Alesund was formerly a coal mining centre, now an international research station with about 30 scientists in winter, 130 in summer. Photograph taken August 2008.

2015-07-14

Campbell, Sandy

Oil drums were converted to stoves by removing a section of the drum wall and replacing it with a flat piece of metal. A stove pipe was added to one end and the other end was converted to a door to allow wood to be added and ash removed. This drum was set on rocks to allow for cooling airflow...

2011-05-30

Campbell, Sandy

Skansen is an open air living history museum on the island of Djurgarden in Stockholm. Examples of buildings have been brought from many parts of Sweden. This wooden windmill is from Öland Island which is just of the south east coast of Sweden. The outside of the windmill is covered with...

2012-03-10

Seale, Linda N.

View of Old Town, Yellowknife, from the ice on Yellowknife Bay. Pilot's Monument at the top of the hill commemorates early bush pilots and also has a flashing light that warns if a small plane is about to land or take off in the channel between Old Town and Jolliffe Island. Photograph taken March...

2015-07-11

Campbell, Sandy

Plaque on the outer wall reads \"Yellowknife's original school. Built in 1939. Mis Mildred Hall opened this school with a class of 32 students in September, 1939. The log school was moved from the Old Tow to this site in February 1987 by Yellowknife Education District No. 1 and the Yellowknife...