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unusual facts about Canadian Arctic



Freedom of navigation

Throughout the years U.S. forces have been performing "Freedom of Navigation" operations in the Straits of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Straits of Malacca, the Indonesian Archipelago, the Black Sea, and occasionally the Canadian Arctic.

Lawrence Osgood

He lived, traveled, and worked in the Canadian Arctic for ten years, directing an Inuktitut revitalization language project for an Inuit organization, developing and producing Inuit children’s television programming, and kayaking several Arctic rivers, some of them in first descents.


see also

Bylot

Robert Bylot, 17th-century explorer in the Canadian Arctic region

Dagny Tande Lid

She is also represented in several of the popular papers and books by Danish-Canadian botanist Erling Porsild, including Edible plants of the Arctic (1953), Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957), and Rocky Mountain wild flowers (1974).

Derek Rasmussen

Derek Rasmussen is the former policy advisor for Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, the elected body representing the Inuit of the independent Territory of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.

Dunlin

Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in Northern Alaska overwinter in Asia.

Ellesmeroceras

The type species, Ellesmeroceras scheii, named by Foeste, 1921, was first found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian arctic, from whence the genus gets its name.

Frobisher Bay Air Base

It was one of three "Crystal" weather sites in the Canadian Arctic Region, Fort Chimo (now Kuujjuaq), Quebec being "Crystal I", and a station on Padloping Island being "Crystal III".

Januarius MacGahan

The expedition got as far as Peel Sound in the Canadian Arctic before it met pack ice and was forced to return.

Michael Pelkey

It is the second-highest unbroken cliff in the world, the highest being Mt. Thor on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.

Ringnes

During his exploration of the high Canadian Arctic in 1900, Sverdrup named three large islands after his sponsors (Axel Heiberg Island, Amund Ringnes Island, and Ellef Ringnes Island).

The Long Voyage

Some of the books he has read concern Christopher Columbus, James Bruce who searched for the source of the Nile, John Franklin who made an "unhappy overland Journey" and was lost searching for the northwest passage in the Canadian Arctic, "Men-selling despots" and the Atlantic slave trade, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer (1771–1806) who wrote Travels in the Interior of Africa and other adventure stories.

Thomas Manning

Thomas Henry Manning (1911–1998), British-Canadian Arctic explorer, biologist, geographer, zoologist, and author

Vilhjálmur

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962), Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist