Northern News

Authors

  • Arctic Institute of North America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3872

Keywords:

Animal husbandry, Atmospheric temperature, Breakup, Clouds, Coasts, Domestic sheep, Estuaries, Glaciology, Ice islands, Ice shelves, Measurement, Melting, Oceanography, River discharges, River ice, Rivers, Sea ice, Size, Stream flow, Surveying, Temperature, Thickness, Winds, Banks Island, N.W.T., Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Nunavut, Yelverton Bay, Kennedy Channel, Massey Sound, Melville, Lake, Labrador, Hamilton Inlet, Backway, The, Greenland, Grinnell Glacier

Abstract

The items include: 1) news from the Royal Geographical Society that the Founder's Medal was awarded to P.D. Baird (AINA's director in Montreal) and the Patron's Medal awarded to Count Eigel Knuth; 2) information on the Banks Island coastal survey party; 3) information on the Ellesmere Ice Shelf party; 4) a report by Keith R. Greenaway on the ice islands observed on R.C.A.F. polar flights; 5) details of the "Blue Dolphin" Labrador expedition to Hamilton Inlet and Lake Melville, Labrador; 6) notes by M.C. Findlay on sheep farming in Greenland; 7) an account by W. Blake of the studies on Grinnell Glacier, Baffin Island; and 8) information on a new carbon drawing ink developed in Tulsa, Oklahoma that may be useful in northern regions as it is not damaged by freezing or thawing.

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Published

1953-01-01

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (1953): July: 65–168

Section

Northern News