A 10400-year-old bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) skull from Ellef Ringnes Island, Nunavut: implications for sea-ice conditions in High Arctic Canada at the end of the last glaciation

• Main Author: Nigel Atkinson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Ellef Ringnes Island; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Balaena mysticetus; bowhead whale; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.656.9207; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/download/111/145/

ABStRACt. Variations in the distribution and radiocarbon ages of postglacial bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) remains throughout the Canadian Arctic Archipelago indicate that the range of this whale expanded and contracted several times during the Holocene. Since the annual bowhead migration refle...