Arctic Trading Co. (Norwegian: Arktisk Næringsdrift) was a Norwegian company founded on 24 June 1929. The company had commercial interests in East Greenland...
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June 1931, Hallvard Devold, one of the founders of the Norwegian Arctic Trading Co., raised the Norwegian flag at Myggbukta and on 10 July 1931, a Norwegian...
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The Arctic (/ˈɑːrktɪk/ or /ˈɑːrtɪk/) (from Greek ἄρκτος, 'bear') is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic region, from the...
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Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 Antarctic Haven Arctic Trading Co. 'Jan S. Krogh.Nęrmere beskrivelse av kystradiostasjonene "Myggbukta"...
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The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern...
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A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where...
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Circumpolar peoples (redirect from Arctic peoples)
Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various indigenous peoples of the Arctic region. Approximately four million people are...
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after Adolf Hoel (1863–1933), Norwegian geologist and chairman of the Arctic Trading Co. The Adolf Hoel Glacier originates in the eastern side of the Greenland...
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Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic...
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Northern Canada (redirect from Canadian Arctic Lands)
the far north, which may refer to the Canadian Arctic, the portion of Canada that lies north of the Arctic Circle, east of Alaska and west of Greenland...
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also supplied the trapping stations with equipment financed by the Arctic Trading Co. (Arktisk Næringsdrift), a company that Hoel had helped to set up...
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Hubbard Trading Company (also referred to as Lamson & Hubbard Canadian Co. or Lamson Trading Co.) was an enterprise engaged in the fur trading business...
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Narwhal (redirect from Arctic unicorn)
narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a species of toothed whale native to the Arctic. It is the only member of the genus Monodon and one of two living representatives...
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Muscovy Company (redirect from Muscovy Trading company)
Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Russian: Московская компания, romanized: Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555...
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Shell plc (redirect from Shell Transport & Trading Co plc)
Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. The combined company rapidly became the...
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Hallvard Devold (category Explorers of the Arctic)
also supplied the trapping stations with equipment financed by the Arctic Trading Co. (Arktisk Næringsdrift), a company that Hallvard had helped to set...
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Arctic GmbH, formerly known as Arctic Cooling, is a German, Swiss-founded manufacturer of computer cooling components, mainly CPU and graphics card coolers...
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This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the...
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Royal Arctic Line A/S (RAL) or Royal Arctic is a seaborne freight company in Greenland, wholly owned by the Government of Greenland. It was formed in...
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leader of Norwegian claims in East Greenland and chairman of the Arctic Trading Co., Adolf Hoel. Smedal published several articles and pamphlets to strengthen...
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SS Baychimo (category Arctic Ocean articles missing geocoordinate data)
the north coast of Canada, visiting trading posts and collecting pelts. On October 1, 1931, at the end of a trading run and loaded with a cargo of fur...
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the NSIU (Norges Svalbard og Ishavsundersøkelser). Promoted by the Arctic Trading Co., towards 1928 a number of cabins were built by the shores of this...
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Cambridge Bay (redirect from Canadian High Arctic Research Station)
Stop, selling KFC and Pizza Hut products, the Ikaluktutiak Co-operative, part of the Arctic Co-operatives Limited, a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada...
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Pond Inlet (category Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut)
Company opened its trading post near the Inuit camp and named it Pond Inlet, marking the expansion of its trading empire into the High Arctic. At the 2021 Canadian...
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Franklin's lost expedition (redirect from Sir John Franklin Arctic expedition)
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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or Tobolsk, two of the largest fur trading centers in Siberia. A first-grade fox pelt was sold the state trading center in Irkutsk for 108 rubles – approximately...
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Wells Fargo (redirect from Wells Fargo & Co.)
Charlotte trading floor in Duke Energy Center". American City Business Journals. "PHOTOS: First look at Wells Fargo Securities' new trading floor". American...
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concept is also known as cap and trade (CAT) or emissions trading scheme (ETS). One prominent example is carbon emission trading for CO2 and other greenhouse...
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Siberian Husky (redirect from Arctic Husky)
ancestors lived in the extremely cold and harsh environment of the Siberian Arctic. William Goosak, a Russian fur trader, introduced them to Nome, Alaska,...
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The North Water (TV series) (category Television shows set in the Arctic)
set in the year 1859, the final years of the whale oil trade, on a whaling expedition in the Arctic Ocean. The aging whaler Volunteer includes among its...
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