The French Geographical Expedition to Thule, 1950-51: A Preliminary Report

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Malaurie, J.
• 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; Firth River; Kane; Liverpool Bay; Siorapaluk; Yukon; Arctic; eskimo*; inuit; Kane Basin; Thule; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66868

Summarized results of author's expedition to northwest Greenland, July 1950-July 1951. With base at Siorapaluk, 125 mi north of Thule, winter sledge trips were made to collect demographic, economic and social data on the Eskimos. Author counted 302 Polar Eskimos in ten different settlements. Ge...