Northern News

Authors

  • Arctic Institute of North America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3828

Keywords:

Age, Caucasians, Geological time, Geology, Glaciology, Granite, History, Ice islands, Ice shelves, Indians, Inuit, Metamorphism (Geology), Movement, Population, Size, Social surveys, Structural geology, Arctic Ocean, N.W.T., Nunavut, Nunavik, Québec, Alaska, Greenland, Russian Arctic, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, United States Range

Abstract

The items include: 1) an update on the position of ice island T1; 2) details of the first official census in the Northwest Territories (i.e., N.W.T, Nunavut, Nunavik, and the James Bay region of Québec) which recorded 3,215 persons; 3) a note on the population of Eskimo people including those of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and the Soviet Arctic; 4) information on the summer 1953 expedition to north Ellesmere Island to carry out glaciological and geological investigations; and 5) a request from Lieut. G.J. Raymond for Arctic postal information for an Arctic postal history and postmarks study.

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Published

1954-01-01

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (1954): June: 1–56

Section

Northern News