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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCorristine, Shane
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center 2012
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Online Access:https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/16