The Mapping of Canada’s Arctic Islands

• Published in: The Canadian Surveyor
• Main Author: Wonders, William C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1982
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Engineering; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Stefansson
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/tcs-1982-0008; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/tcs-1982-0008

It is now well established that the Vikings were the first Europeans to explore Canada’s Arctic Islands, but these early travelers left no maps and it was not until the voyage of Marlin Frobisher, in 1576, that the four-century process of mapping this part of the world was begun. The south and east...