Northern News

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: North America, Arctic Institute of
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1955
• Subjects: Artifacts; Atmosphere; Biological sampling; Bird nesting; Birds; Bones; Brant; Caribou; Corals; Gulls; Inuit archaeology; Lamellibranchiata; Lesser Snow Geese; Logistics; Long-tailed Ducks; Mammals; Measurement; Meteorology; Mollusks; Palaeontology; Plants (Biology); Research; Research organizations; Ross' Geese; Size; Surveying; Whistling Swans; White-fronted Geese; Firth River region; Alaska/Yukon; Greenland; Denmark; Banks Island; N.W.T; Liverpool Bay region; Arctic; Canada; Firth River; Liverpool Bay; Norway; Yukon; Arktis*; Arktisk Institut; Beaufort Sea; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66867

The items include: 1) a summary of archaeological investigations on the Firth River, Yukon Territory by Richard S. MacNeish; 2) details on the founding of the Arktisk Institut (Copenhagen) by Helge Larsen; 3) Charles Richardson's notes on a trip to Banks Island as part of the joint Canada-United States Beaufort Sea expedition; 4) a summary of ornithological observations made by E.O. Höhn in the Anderson River-Liverpool Bay region, N.W.T.; 5) information on a symposium on Arctic meteorological problems to be held in Oslo, Norway during the first week of July 1956; and 6) errata for vol. 8, no. 2.