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 1950
• Subjects: Accidents; Aerial surveys; Animal distribution; Air navigation; Airplanes; Bird nesting; Canada Geese; Expeditions; Long-tailed Ducks; Maps; Mortality; Radar; Research; Waterfowl; Wildlife habitat; Alert; Nunavut; Arctic regions; Ungava; Péninsule d'; Québec; Greenland; Alaska; Barrow; Arctic; Canada; Dunbar; Eklund; Ungava Peninsula; Point Barrow; Ungava peninsula
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67015

The news items include: 1) a report about an R.C.A.F. Lancaster crash at Alert that killed nine people including Colonel C.J. Hubbard and D.W. Kirk (reprinted from the Arctic Circular, vol. 3, no. 4, 1950, p. 46-47); 2) information on the special problems of air navigation in high latitudes by K.C. MacLure; 3) the survey of waterfowl breeding grounds in the Ungava Peninsula by C.R. Eklund; 4) information on the British West Greenland Expedition; 5) the presentation of the Bruce Memorial Prize to Dr. M.J. Dunbar in recognition of his contributions to Arctic science; 6) the presumed death of Rodgers Hamilton and pilot Burt Galbraith in a flight from Tigvariak Island that never arrived at Point Barrow, Alaska.