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    recorded on Herald Island, but four crewmen of the ill-fated exploration ship Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, reached Herald Island in January...
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  • Herald Island may refer to: Herald Island (Arctic), in Russia Herald Island (New Zealand), in New Zealand Herald Island (Queensland), Australia This disambiguation...
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    These islands of the Arctic Ocean can be classified by the country that controls the territory. Arctic Archipelago Queen Elizabeth Islands Axel Heiberg...
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    roughly the size of Crete. Located in the Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea, the island lies astride the 180th meridian. The International...
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  • Thumbnail for Russian Arctic islands
    Russian Arctic islands are a number of islands groups and sole islands scattered around the Arctic Ocean. The islands are all situated within the Arctic Circle...
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    Islet (category Islands by type)
    Islet, Queensland, Australia Herald Island, Arctic Ocean Île Vierge, France Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom Kid Island, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri...
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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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    Somerset Island because of ice. Centre: Rae–Richardson Arctic expedition Mackenzie River and along the coast. West: HMS Plover, HMS Herald to Bering...
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    reach Wrangel Island and to discover open seas in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. However, the ship entered an ice pack near Herald Island in September...
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    reach Wrangel Island and to discover open seas in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. However, the ship entered an ice pack near Herald Island in September...
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    Northwest Passage (category Arctic Ocean)
    Passage (NEP). The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and from Mainland Canada by a series of Arctic waterways collectively...
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    Chukchi Sea (category Seas of the Arctic Ocean)
    other seas of the Arctic. Wrangel Island lies at the north-western limit of the sea, and Herald Island is located off Wrangel Island's Waring Point, near...
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    The Arctic Bridge or Arctic Sea Bridge is a seasonal sea route approximately 6,700 kilometres (4,200 mi; 3,600 NM) long linking Russia to Canada, specifically...
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    The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by...
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    reach Wrangel Island and to discover open seas in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. However, the ship entered an ice pack near Herald Island in September...
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    HMS Resolute (1850) (category Arctic exploration vessels)
    was HMS Herald, and at the helm, Captain Henry Kellett. Herald went through the Bering Strait to search the western reaches of the Canadian Arctic. In 1850...
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    winds, set out towards the Arctic Circle and passed by his consort ship and HMS Herald. By 28 July, they had reached the Arctic Circle. The crew busied themselves...
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    The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts...
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    John Franklin (category British explorers of the Arctic)
    War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819...
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    Graham Gore (category Explorers of the Arctic)
    Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in two expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia aboard HMS Beagle. In 1845 he...
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    Francis Crozier (category Irish Arctic explorers)
    Canadian Arctic Crozier Point on Spitsbergen, in the Arctic north of Norway Crozier Channel, to the north of Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic Crozier...
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    Last voyage of the Karluk (category Shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean)
    the ice and later on the shores of Wrangel Island. In all, eleven men died before rescue. The Canadian Arctic Expedition was organised under the leadership...
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    HMS Terror (1813) (category Arctic exploration vessels)
    Arctic Research Foundation announced that the wreck of Terror had been found in Nunavut's Terror Bay, off the southwest coast of King William Island....
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    USS Jeannette (1878) (category Arctic exploration vessels)
    on two voyages to the Arctic, in 1875 and 1876, before selling her to James Gordon Bennett Jr., proprietor of the New York Herald, who changed her name...
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    Polar vortex (redirect from Arctic cyclone)
    The Arctic tropospheric polar vortex A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both...
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    Offices Governor General (Flag) Herald Chancellor Chief Herald Deputy Chief Herald Heralds in ordinary, extraordinary and emeritus Assiniboine Athabaska...
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    SS Arctic was a 2,856-ton paddle steamer, which was one of the few Collins Line liners, which operated a transatlantic passenger and mail steamship service...
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    of the land and sea. They stand on a compartment with Arctic poppies, dwarf fireweed, and Arctic heather, alongside an iceberg at sea. The motto, written...
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  • official separation). The zinc mine was located 1,120 km (700 mi) north of the Arctic Circle, and 96 km (60 mi) north of the community of Resolute. It closed...
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    Morgana Land is a phantom island in the Arctic, reported first in 1907. After an unfruitful search, it was deemed to be Tobias Island. A Fata Morgana is usually...
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