Encyclopedia Arctica

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1948
• Subjects: History; Publishing; Research; Science; Social sciences; Arctic regions; Subarctic regions; Arctic; North Pole; Pacific; Peary; eskimo*; Ice; Iceberg*; Iceland; Newfoundland; permafrost; Sakhalin; Sea ice; Subarctic; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67045

Encyclopedia Arctica is to be like Britannica, but instead of taking in the whole globe our work is to focus on the Arctic and shade off into the Subarctic. For EA purposes, the Arctic has not as yet been defined (as of 1948). The Subarctic on land has been considered provisionally as the region nor...