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    A Hero in the Friendly Arctic: Deconstructing Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Rhetorical Maneuver by Silje Gaupseth

    Published 2012-05-01
    “…The article deals with Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson's self-presentation in the expedition account The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921), which tells the story of his travels and trials in the Canadian High Arctic in the years between 1913-1918. …”
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    The Queen of the Arctic: Louise Arner Boyd by Elisabeth Isaksson, Anka Ryall

    Published 2023-05-01
    “…Without family obligations and with seemingly inexhaustible financial resources, she used Arctic exploration to create an independent and self-defined life for herself.…”
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    Da Nansen lanserte <i> Nord i Tåkeheimen <\i> by Harald Dag Jølle

    Published 2012-05-01
    “…In 1911 Nansen published his major work In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. The book deals with the exploration of the northern areas of the earth in earlier times, from antiquity before Pytheas to the Portuguese discoveries of the 16th Century.  …”
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    Issues of Delineating the Russian Arctic Shelf Border by Alexander Vladimirovich Kotov

    Published 2017-03-01
    “…The researcher emphasizes the Soviet and modern Russian experience of the Arctic exploration which is actually a collection of the evidence base. …”
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    The North seen by People from the South. Italian Explorers about the Arctic. The Journal of Giacomo Bove by Elizaveta Khachaturyan

    Published 2008-02-01
    “…The objects of my analysis are the travel writings and expedition reports of Italian Arctic explorers. In the present paper I will analyse the Journal of Giacomo Bove, who was a member of the Swedish Arctic expedition of the ship "Vega" (1878-79) headed by Nordenskjold (Il Passaggio del Nord-Est. …”
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    The Arctic from a Hungarian Perspective by Németh, Viktória

    Published 2023-04-01
    “…The history of Arctic exploration and the natural and social geographical characteristics of the region have been in the focus of Hungarian geographical research for 250 years. …”
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    Exploration technology for the Arctic by Bamford, D

    Published 2011
    “…Of course, onshore Arctic exploration and development has a significant history, notably in Alaska and West Siberia, and there has been intermittent exploration in the Barents, southern Kara, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, so there are many ideas – both conceptual and proven – to look at.…”
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    PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF POPULAR SCIENCE TOURISM IN THE ARCTIC by Yana S. Testina, Natalia Yu. Belyakova, Alexander M. Vorotnikov

    Published 2024-03-01
    “…One of the prospective directions of Arctic exploration is the development of popular science tourism. …”
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    Pleistocene arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution? by Macias Fauria, M, Jepson, P, Zimov, N, Malhi, Y

    Published 2020
    “…Here we review the environmental context of megafaunal ecological engineering in the Arctic; explore the mechanisms through which it can help mitigate climate change; and estimate its potential—based on bison and horse, with the aim of evaluating the feasibility of generating an ecosystem shift that is economically viable in terms of carbon benefits and of sufficient scale to play a significant role in global climate change mitigation. …”
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    Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c.1880–1914 by Martin, P

    Published 2018
    “…Studying the Society’s close connections to three Arctic explorers – Fridtjof Nansen, Ejnar Mikkelsen and Robert Peary – it is shown that the RGS was instrumental in shaping both scientific and lay discourses about the Arctic at the turn of the twentieth century. …”
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