• The Eastern Arctic was an electoral district of the Northwest Territories, Canada, created in 1966 and abolished in 1975. The district was represented...
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    The Arctic (/ˈɑːrtɪk/ or /ˈɑːrktɪk/) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling...
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    The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. It spans an area of approximately 14,060,000 km2 (5,430,000 sq mi)...
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    earliest inhabitants of North America's central and eastern Arctic are referred to as the Arctic small tool tradition (AST) and existed c. 2500 BCE. The...
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    recent arrival in Greenland from the Eastern Canadian Arctic, arriving perhaps as late as the 18th century. Eastern dialects of Inuktitut have fifteen consonants...
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  • and circumpolar competitions, such as the Arctic Winter Games and the Eastern Arctic Summer Games. Arctic Sports World Eskimo Indian Olympics Native...
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  • Thule people (category Prehistory of the Arctic)
    over time. The Thule Tradition replaced the Dorset Tradition in the Eastern Arctic and introduced both kayaks and umiaks, or skin covered boats, into the...
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    eastern parts and sometimes a central part. The eastern Arctic includes the self-governing territory of Nunavut (much of which is in the true Arctic,...
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    the Inukjuak Inuit skills for survival in the High Arctic. The Inuit were taken on the Eastern Arctic patrol ship CGS C.D. Howe to areas on Cornwallis and...
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    Exploration for petroleum in the Arctic is expensive and challenging both technically and logistically. In the offshore, sea ice can be a major factor...
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    The Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic...
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    Greenland (category Regions of the Arctic)
    caribou hunting". Arctic Anthropology. 23 (1/2): 57–80. JSTOR 40316103. Rowley, G. (1940). "The Dorset culture of the eastern Arctic". American Anthropologist...
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    Strait Eastern Arctic Eastern Arctic Small Tool Tradition groups c. 3000 – 500 BCE Independence I culture Northern Greenland and the Canadian Arctic between...
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    Inuit (category Hunter-gatherers of the Arctic)
    and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec...
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    Parka (redirect from Arctic jacket)
    eliminatory functions without exposure to the elements. This traditional eastern Arctic Inuit parka, designed to keep the child warm and safe from frostbite...
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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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    The Arctic consists of land, internal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and international waters above the Arctic Circle (66 degrees...
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    claim agreement reached with Inuit, the indigenous people of Canada's Eastern Arctic. Since that time, the federal government has slowly devolved legislative...
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  • contact language in Quebec, Labrador, and neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted of uninflected Inuktitut word stems arranged in an English...
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    Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is an American national park that protects portions of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. The park is...
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    The Arctic shrew (Sorex arcticus), also known as the blackback shrew or saddlebacked shrew, is a medium-sized shrew found in Canada and the northern United...
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    eliminatory functions without exposure to the elements. This traditional eastern Arctic Inuit parka, designed to keep the child warm and safe from frostbite...
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    portion is bounded by the Arctic Ocean. The geographic range is composed along the provinces of Labrador: including Eastern Baffin, Devon Island, Ellesmere...
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  • covered by the agreement: the first consists of the Arctic islands and the mainland eastern Arctic, and their adjacent marine areas; the second includes...
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    Walrus (category Pinnipeds of the Arctic Ocean)
    marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the only extant...
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    of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all...
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    seas surrounding Greenland, the northern and eastern coasts of Iceland, and the eastern Bering Sea. The Arctic realm transitions to the Temperate Northern...
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  • The Nunavut Teacher Education Program (NTEP), formerly the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education Program (EATEP), is an important college / university teacher...
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    Lake/Mackenzie River. Currently, there are no vessels permanently based in the eastern Arctic, although CCG vessels and aircraft frequently operate there, staging...
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    findings of which were summarized in his publication Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic (1985). "The Saga of Erik the Red". The Icelandic Saga Database. Sveinbjörn...
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