Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Circumnavigate Banks Island by Canoe in 1952

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Manning, T.H.
• 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; Castel Bay; De Salis Bay; Macpherson; Melville Lake; Sachs Harbour; Storkerson Bay; Arctic; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Kennedy channel; Thule
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66923

Contains chronological account of events May-Nov. 1952 on Banks Island and mainland. The writer and A. Macpherson (q.v.) made preliminary soundings in harbors on south, west, and north coasts of the island and topographic and geologic notes on coastline and interior, collected bird, mammal, and plan...