Umiak I is a purpose-built ice-strengthened bulk carrier constructed for the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vale, to transport...
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The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat, used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found...
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Nunavik is a sister ship to the 2006-built Umiak I. In April 2018, Fednav ordered a third similar vessel, Arvik I, which was delivered in April 2021. In October...
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Bay in 2005 in order to access the nickel deposit. The bulk carrier ship Umiak I was commissioned in May 2006 to transport ore from the mine. In July 2015...
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Three vessels in the Fednav fleet, the 2006-built Umiak I, 2014-built MV Nunavik and 2021-built Arvik I, are fitted with icebreaker bows and have enough...
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22,622 In operation Tundra Cyprus Navarone SA 2009 30,930 In operation Umiak I Canada Fednav 2006 22,462 In operation U-Sea Saskatchewan Canada Seavance...
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nickel deposit at the Voisey's Bay Mine in Labrador. The bulk carrier MV Umiak I was one of several ice-strengthened bulk carriers built to transport nickel...
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Storage and Offloading Vessel Maersk FPSO Anthony Green 2011 (2011) 30 5 "Umiak I" Icebreaking Bulk Carrier Fednav Group Barbara Budd 2011 (2011) 31 6 "USS...
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List of boat types (section I)
Trawler (naval) Trawler (recreational) Trow Tugboat Top of page U-boat Umiak Top of page Vaporetto Very Slender Vessel Vlet Top of page Waka Wakeboard...
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Line 14 November Japan Universal Shipbuilding Corporation Maizuru, Kyoto Umiak I Bulk carrier For Fednav 1 December Finland Aker Finnyards Rauma, Finland...
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SS Baychimo (category World War I merchant ships of Canada)
November 3, 2012. Dalton, Anthony, Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship, Heritage House, 2006, ISBN 1-894974-14-X Gillingham, Donald W., Umiak!, Museum Press, 1955...
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Encyclopedia.com. Accessed September 2010. Aĭnana, L., and Richard L. Bland. Umiak the traditional skin boat of the coast dwellers of the Chukchi Peninsula :...
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to 1885 he led the Umiak Expedition with T. V. Garde, exploring the east coast of Christian IX Land, as far as 66° 8' N using umiak boats. The expedition...
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expedition as a paraplegic). Accompanying the Californians was a film crew in a umiak, a walrus-skin boat traditional to the region; they were filming the 1991...
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the Dorset Tradition in the Eastern Arctic and introduced both kayaks and umiaks, or skin covered boats, into the archaeological record as well as developed...
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Bull boat Flat-bottomed boat Quffa St Brendan Seoighe Inish Bearachain Umiak Goatley boat Ua Maoileoin, p. 143. Mac an Iomaire (2000), Annotation by...
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was independently developed by the ancient Celts. Fishing coracle Kayak Umiak "kuphar, n.", Oxford English Dictionary Dionisius A. Agius (2008), Classic...
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slightly to the north of where Wilhelm August Graah was forced to turn his Umiak expedition round in 1830. Nordenskiöld Archipelago, an island group in the...
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make shoes, whips, dog sled harnesses, to cover a wooden frame boat, the Umiak and in constructing summer tents known as tupiq. The body fat content of...
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deployed when there was a river to cross. Currach Fishing coracle Kuphar Kayak Umiak Tarai-bune "Definition of coracle". Collins English Dictionary. 2012. Evans...
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a handheld tool with an elongated handle and a flat, widened distal end (i.e. the blade), used as a lever to apply force onto the bladed end. It most...
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Olsen Walløe explores the east coast of Greenland from Cape Farewell in umiaks 1760–1763: S. F. Loshkin explores Novaya Zemlya 1765–1766: Vasily Chichagov...
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that can come out of nowhere. Not big, but powerful. That's very dangerous. I have no doubt that a wave got him." The documentary of McAuley's journey,...
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Harpoons enabled the Inuit to hunt large marine mammals from a distance in the umiak and kayak in the open Arctic Ocean. Hominy – this is a specialized corn...
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from the Kalaallisut word for the traditional Inuit passenger boat, the umiak, distinguished from the kayak, used for hunting. The sea connection provided...
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animal skins stretched over a framework. Examples include the kayak and umiak. In 19th-century North America, the birch-on-frame construction technique...
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Corporation Umiak The official name is the "City of Utqiaġvik", spelled with the diacritical mark on the "g". Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the highest...
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different Chinese languages. Duanwu (端午) literally means 'starting five'—i.e., the first "fifth day" of the month according to the Chinese zodiac. However...
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description fits the Inuit and two of their types of boats, the kayak and the umiak. Similarly, the Swedish clergyman Olaus Magnus wrote in 1505 that he saw...
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building large skin boats similar to the angyapik among Siberian Yupik, and umiak among many other Eskimo peoples. Poverty, unemployment, and alcoholism challenge...
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