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Home » News » The daring Dunedin Star rescue off the Skeleton Coast in 1942 In November 1942, the British Dunedin Star liner hits a reef off the Skeleton Coast. What follows is one of the most daring maritime rescues in history … All is…
Tegan Bernier, a member of the Royal William Sea Cadets of Pictou was one of six cadets chosen for a deployment to the Canadian Arctic. Bernier is a descendant of Captain Joseph Elzear Bernier, a pivotal figure in the exploration…
BOOK REVIEW: Sea Change: America’s New Great Game in the Arctic Circle By Rana Foroohar / CROWN Reviewed by: Heidi Vierow The Reviewer — Heidi Vierow, PhD, is a retired CIA Clandestine Service officer, currently an Intelligence Strategy and Policy Advisor at…
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner The sign marking the location of the Arctic Circle is a popular tourist destination on the Dalton Highway. The wayside and nearby campground, nearly 200 miles north of Fairbanks by road, are run by the Bureau of Land…
The Bering Strait sits to the north of the Bering Sea between Russia's Chukotka Peninsula and Alaska's Seward Peninsula. During the winter, the sea can see ice fields of anywhere from 4 to 5 feet thick. This freeze begins in November and…
How the Inuit helped to solve one of the Arctic’s greatest mysteries is at the heart of Ones We Met – Inuit Traditional Knowledge and the Franklin Expedition, now at the Collingwood Museum. And the travelling exhibition developed by the Canadian…
Most ships are designed to avoid being trapped by sea ice. Norway’s Fram was built to do exactly the opposite. For centuries, Arctic explorers had treated sea ice as an enemy. Ships caught in its grip could be squeezed until…
The World from PRX ‘Nanook of the North’ a century later On June 11, 1922, American filmmaker Robert Flaherty premiered “Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic” in New York City. Set in Inukjuak on…
Published 6:30 am Monday, October 12, 2026 This atlatl dart, seen here with archaeologist Chris Thomas, is the most complete example that has been found to date. It is 6,000 years old and was recovered near Alligator Lake in the Territories of Kwanlin Dun…
JEFFERSONVILLE, NY — Walter Lippmann (1879-1974) was often referred to as the father of modern journalism. His book, "Public Opinion”, published in 1922, examines how mass media shapes public … There is a striking parallel between Lippmann's writings on the role of the press…