Living at a High Arctic Polynya: Inughuit Settlement and Subsistence around the North Water during the Thule Station Period, 1910–53

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Grønnow, Bjarne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Dundas; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Avanersuaq; Ice cap; Inughuit; narwhal*; ringed seal; Sea ice; Thule; Uummannaq; walrus*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4573; http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/4573/4793

The settlement and subsistence patterns of the Inughuit of the Avanersuaq (Thule area) are described and analyzed for the years 1910 to 1953, when Knud Rasmussen’s trading station at Dundas was active. Inughuit subsistence was based on the rich biotic resources of the North Water polynya between Ell...