Jarvis and the Alaskan Reindeer Caper

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Boyd, William L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1972
• Subjects: Icebreaking; Ice pressure; Ice-structure interaction; Louis S. St. Laurent (Ship); Manhattan (Ship); Marine transportation; Pressure ridges; Sea ice; Winds; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Point Hope; Barrow; Davis Strait; Nome; Point Barrow; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65999

The United States Coast Guard has announced a departure from the traditional practice of naming vessels in honour of former Secretaries of the Treasury (in effect since 1830), and hereafter will use the names of heroes. One of the first of three new 378-foot cutters bears the name Jarvis. During the...