3 The Arnapik Site
The Arnapik site, JlGu-9, is located about two miles east (Fig. 1) of Amulet Creek (61°51′15″N., 79°27′40″W.) on the central east coast of Mansel Island in the northeastern extremity of Hudson Bay. Mansel Island, 36 miles west of the Ungava mainland at its closest point, is a low, generally barren i...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0081130000003245 2024-03-03T08:40:43+00:00 3 The Arnapik Site Taylor, William E. 1968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000003245 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000003245 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology volume 22, page 12-43 ISSN 0081-1300 2330-2275 General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science journal-article 1968 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000003245 2024-02-08T08:44:05Z The Arnapik site, JlGu-9, is located about two miles east (Fig. 1) of Amulet Creek (61°51′15″N., 79°27′40″W.) on the central east coast of Mansel Island in the northeastern extremity of Hudson Bay. Mansel Island, 36 miles west of the Ungava mainland at its closest point, is a low, generally barren island measuring roughly 60 by 34 miles. Despite its size its maximum elevation is under 500 feet. The island, formed of limestone and limestone gravels, geologically is a member of the Arctic lowlands. The vegetation, arctic grasses, sedges, mosses, lichens, willow and arctic flowers, is extremely sparse for this latitude, a marked contrast to the hardrock terrain of the nearby mainland, but much like such high Arctic locales as Bathurst and Comwallis Islands near 75° north latitude (Polunin 1948: 248). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Hudson Bay Mansel Island Cambridge University Press Arctic Hudson Bay Hudson Mansel Island ENVELOPE(-79.833,-79.833,61.992,61.992) Amulet Creek ENVELOPE(-79.433,-79.433,61.934,61.934) Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 22 12 43 |
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The Arnapik site, JlGu-9, is located about two miles east (Fig. 1) of Amulet Creek (61°51′15″N., 79°27′40″W.) on the central east coast of Mansel Island in the northeastern extremity of Hudson Bay. Mansel Island, 36 miles west of the Ungava mainland at its closest point, is a low, generally barren island measuring roughly 60 by 34 miles. Despite its size its maximum elevation is under 500 feet. The island, formed of limestone and limestone gravels, geologically is a member of the Arctic lowlands. The vegetation, arctic grasses, sedges, mosses, lichens, willow and arctic flowers, is extremely sparse for this latitude, a marked contrast to the hardrock terrain of the nearby mainland, but much like such high Arctic locales as Bathurst and Comwallis Islands near 75° north latitude (Polunin 1948: 248). |
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