A 10 400-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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Atkinson, Nigel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: bowhead whale; sea ice; deglaciation; ocean currents; paleoclimate; baleine boréale; glace de mer; déglaciation; courants océaniques; paléoclimat; Arctic; Baleine; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Ellef Ringnes Island; la Baleine; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Balaena mysticetus; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63175

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 reflects the pr...