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 1953
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; Atmospheric temperature; Breakup; Clouds; Coasts; Domestic sheep; Estuaries; Glaciology; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Measurement; Melting; Oceanography; River discharges; River ice; Rivers; Sea ice; Size; Stream flow; Surveying; Temperature; Thickness; Winds; Banks Island; N.W.T; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Nunavut; Yelverton Bay; Kennedy Channel; Massey Sound; Melville; Lake; Labrador; Hamilton Inlet; Backway; The; Greenland; Grinnell Glacier; Baffin Island; Findlay; Lake Melville; Melville Lake; Arctic; Baffin; Ellesmere Ice Shelf; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Kennedy channel
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66921

The items include: 1) news from the Royal Geographical Society that the Founder's Medal was awarded to P.D. Baird (AINA's director in Montreal) and the Patron's Medal awarded to Count Eigel Knuth; 2) information on the Banks Island coastal survey party; 3) information on the Ellesmere Ice Shelf party; 4) a report by Keith R. Greenaway on the ice islands observed on R.C.A.F. polar flights; 5) details of the "Blue Dolphin" Labrador expedition to Hamilton Inlet and Lake Melville, Labrador; 6) notes by M.C. Findlay on sheep farming in Greenland; 7) an account by W. Blake of the studies on Grinnell Glacier, Baffin Island; and 8) information on a new carbon drawing ink developed in Tulsa, Oklahoma that may be useful in northern regions as it is not damaged by freezing or thawing.