How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic. : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2019, no. 16: How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic.

• Main Author: Gismondi, Chris
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2019
• Subjects: environmental knowledge; arctic; explorations; gender; indigenous knowledge; indigenous peoples; indigenous people; science; botany; technology; Arctic; Qallunaat
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8594; http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8594/

For many of us “southerners,” we may imagine the Arctic landscape as a desolate frozen landscape. At the historic roots of this perception is the visual culture of Arctic exploration throughout a long nineteenth century which represented the Canadian Arctic as devoid of its diverse flora. Many explo...