From Science to Survival: Using Virtual Exhibits to Communicate the Significance of Polar Heritage Sites in the Canadian Arctic

• Published in: Open Archaeology
• Main Authors: Dawson, Peter, Levy, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2016
• Subjects: Education; Archeology; Conservation; Arctic; Antarctic; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Northwest Passage; Fort Conger; Antarc*; Climate change; International Polar Year; Northwest passage; Quttinirpaaq National Park
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2016-0016; https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opar/2/1/article-opar-2016-0016.xml.xml; https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/journals/opar/2/1/article-opar-2016-0016.xml.xml

Abstract Many of Canada’s non-Indigenous polar heritage sites exist as memorials to the Heroic Age of arctic and Antarctic Exploration which is associated with such events as the First International Polar Year, the search for the Northwest Passage, and the race to the Poles. However, these and other...