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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...
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ftjarcadia:oai:arcadia.ub.lmu.de:article/16 2023-05-15T14:35:28+02:00 English Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan McCorristine, Shane 2012-06-11 application/pdf https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/16 eng eng Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/16/11 https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/16 Copyright (c) 2012 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Shane McCorristine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA Arcadia; 2012 2199-3408 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2012 ftjarcadia 2023-02-12T13:38:01Z 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 Lights in the Arctic region. Hearing aurorae was something which eluded most Arctic explorers, and was therefore explained as superstition or an acoustic illusion. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Chipewyan Fort Chipewyan North West Passage Arcadia - Explorations in Environmental History (E-Journal) Arctic Canada Fort Chipewyan ENVELOPE(-111.121,-111.121,58.722,58.722) |
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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 Lights in the Arctic region. Hearing aurorae was something which eluded most Arctic explorers, and was therefore explained as superstition or an acoustic illusion. |
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