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Includes information about the Paleo-Eskimos, the Dorset period, and the Thule culture.
http://www.travelvantage.com/arc_his.html
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The United States and Greenland
Comprehensive history of the United States military presence in Greenland, with related topics for
Iceland and other Arctic locales. Maps, tables, photos, and arctic aviation summaries.
http://www.homestead.com/argumentsandfacts/usgreenland.html
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Sir John Franklin
Extensive resources on Franklin, his ill-fated last expedition, and the cultural history of
exploration.
http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/SJFranklin.html
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Samuel Hearne's Search for the Coppermine River
An article by J. Raymond Edinger, Jr. on the Hearne's explorations of the Canadian Arctic in the
1700s.
http://www.mercatormag.com/article.php3?i=70
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center
History, oral traditions, archaeological research, and vignettes of life and society of the peoples
of the Canadian Arctic. Includes searchable database of photos, sounds, place names, and documents.
http://pwnhc.ca/
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Prehistory of Alaska
History of the people, wildlife, and land of the Tundra, Arctic, coastal, and interior regions of
Alaska from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the
topic.
http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/index.htm
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The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
A museum on Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary and Donald B. MacMillan. Includes collections on polar
exploration gear, natural history specimens, and artifacts and drawings made by Inuit and Indians
of North America.
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/arcticmuseum/arcticstudies/
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The Northern Lights Route
The dispersion of European culture from the Norwegian coast to the Barents Sea and the Baltic.
http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/
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New Bedford Whaling Museum
Short article on the history of arctic whaling .
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/arctic.htm
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Inuit and Englishmen : The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
History of the Arctic expedition of Englishman Martin Frobisher, the first contacts between Inuit
and Europeans, the search search for a Northwest Passage, the first mining venture in Canada, and
the earliest English efforts to establish a colony in North America.
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/canhist/frobisher/frint01e.html
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Gates of the Arctic - History
Short history of the origins of Arctic's the major anthropological groups such as the Inuit,
Aleuts, Athabascans, and Northwest Coast Indians.
http://www.goals.com/thayer/gota/history/historybody.htm
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The Big Sickness in Arctic Alaska - 1918
Article on Arctic colonization and the introduction of new diseases such as measles, smallpox, and
influenza in the early 1900s.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Sickness/sickness.html
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Arctic Exploration Discovery History Books
Books on CD-ROM by the CD-Academia Book Company. Images, illustrations and timelines of the XIXth
Century expeditions to the Arctic.
http://www.cd-books.com/
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Arctic Dawn
Historical resources on the expeditions of Arctic explorer Samuel Hearne. Includes information on
the wildlife of the north and the peoples indigenous to the region.
http://web.idirect.com/~hland/sh/shtoc.htm
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Arctic Blue Books
Searchable version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the British Parliamentary Papers relating to
Canadian Arctic exploration between 1818-1878.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/arcticbb/
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