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 1949
• Subjects: Animal live-capture; Biographies; Expeditions; Fisheries; Geographical names; Geological exploration; Glaciology; Gold; Gravel; History; Ice caps; Inconnu; Lake trout; Lake whitefish; Maps; Marine navigation; Meteorites; Polar bears; Research; Research stations; Velikaia Severnii Ekspeditsii; 1725-1743; Weather stations; Foxe Basin region; Nunavut; Prince Charles Island; Mackenzie King Island; N.W.T./Nunavut; Firth River region; Alaska/Yukon; Kangiqsualujjuaq region; Québec; Coral Harbour (Hamlet); Greenland; Russian Arctic waters; Great Slave Lake; N.W.T; George; Rivière; region; Arctic; Coral Harbour; Cruiser; Eureka; Firth River; Foxe Basin; Gros-Cap; Hay River; Isachsen; Kangiqsualujjuaq; King Island; Mould Bay; Yukon; North East Passage; polar bear; Prince Charles island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67031

The news items include: 1) an expedition to investigate islands in the northeast of Foxe Basin; 2) the offical naming of Prince Charles Island the largest of the newly-found islands in Foxe Basin and the adoption of the name Mackenzie King Island for what was originally thought to be the southern part of Borden Island; 3) the naming of Eureka, Resolute, Isachsen, and Mould Bay weather stations; 4) information and background on placer gold in gravels of the Firth River, Yukon by C.S. Lord (from the Arctic Circular, vol. II, 1949, p. 29-30); 5) a possible meteorite fall in the George River region, Quebec; 6) eight polar bear cubs that were captured and ordered released in Coral Harbour; 7) the French Arctic Research Expedition to Greenland; 8) navigation of the North East Passage by the German cruiser "Komet" in 1940; 9) the recent acquisition of historical documents about the life and work of Russian sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Institute of History and Natural Sciences (U.S.S.R. Academy of Science); 10) information on the two commerical fisheries carried out in the summer of 1948, one at Gros Cap and the other at Hay River.