Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 2012, no. 2: Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan

• Main Author: McCorristine, Shane
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2012
• Subjects: Environmental Knowledge; arctic; British Empire; explorations; imperialism; science; ships; Arctic; Canada; Fort Chipewyan; Chipewyan; North West Passage
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/3681; http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3681/

In 1819, British commander John Franklin set out to his first Arctic land expedition in order to survey the northern coast of Canada and to find the fabled North-West Passage. However, part of the expedition's scientific agenda was to investigate the phenomenon of aurora borealis or Northern Li...