Tourism throughout the world raises environmental issues that are often concerned with conflicting rights and responsibilities: the inherent right of mankind to travel, the no-less …
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One of the greatest quests in exploration was the European search for the Northwest Passage (NWP), an oceanic short-cut from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Canadian Arctic …
The 2014 Arctic Human Development Report identified “Arctic settlements, cities, and communities” as one of the main gaps in knowledge of the region. This article looks at …
Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries- -pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance. A Fabulous …
Why and how did people read literature on North America by explorers, travellers, emigrants, and tourists? This is the central question Robin Jarvis takes up as he addresses …
Forty-nine books and articles published during the last 140 years give two dozen different figures for the number of expeditions that participated in the search for Sir John Franklin …
The Kitikmeot Sea, in the south-central Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an estuarine system comprised of Coronation Gulf, Bathurst Inlet, Dease Strait, and Queen Maud Gulf. It is unique …
The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. He undertook four major voyages, epic sledge …