Coastal environment

• Main Authors: Couture, N., Pollard, W. H., Lantuit, Hugues
• Other Authors: Burn, C. R.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Herschel Island; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31069/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39922

Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and...