Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know
- ...that arctic haze contributes to global warming, raising temperatures by up to 5.4°C (3°F) during the arctic winter? Read More...
- ...that the initial arctic convoys of World War II set sail from Iceland? Read More...
- ...that seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast? Read More...
- ... that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic? Read more...
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Did you knows 1–20[edit]
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/1
- ...that arctic haze contributes to global warming, raising temperatures by up to 5.4°C (3°F) during the arctic winter? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/2
- ...that Tookoolito (pictured) and her companion were advertised as "Esquimaux Indians... from the arctic regions" and exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in 1862? Read More...
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- ...that the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905?
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/4
- .....that in United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report, average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/5
- ..that the Arctic Winter Games are held biennially for athletes from the "circumpolar North"?" Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/6
- ... that in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/7
- ...that the Canadian Arctic islands did not become part of Canada until 1880? Read More...
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- ... that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS? Read More...
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- ...that Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/10
- ...that Captain Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times to conduct scientific research? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/11
- ...that the initial arctic convoys of World War II set sail from Iceland? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/12
- ...that John Wilson Danenhower, survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/13
- ...that the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/14
- ...that Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died while trying to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon in his ill-fated 1897 Arctic balloon expedition? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/15
- ...that Jan Nagórski, Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic, was presumed dead for 38 years? Read More...
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- ...that seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast? Read More...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/17
- ...that Scandinavia's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries? Read More...
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- ...that Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/19
- ...that the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age? Read more....
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/20
- ...that geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest? Read more...
Did you know 21–40[edit]
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/21
- ...that as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/22
- ...that Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who in 1897-98 helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow, Alaska? Read more....
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/23
- ... that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear? Read more....
Wikipedia:Recent additions 225
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- ...that the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic, and the Gallinula comeri, the flightless moorhen of Gough Island, were both named after whaling Captain George Comer? Read more...
Wikipedia:Recent additions 214
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/25
- ...that the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/26
- ... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross, who never saw them? ''Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/27
- ... that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/28
- ...that there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses aren't useful because they're too close to the magnetic north pole? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/29
- ...... that the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/30
- ... that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era? Read more...
Portal:Arctic/Selected Did you know/31
- ...that the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic, and the Gallinula comeri, the flightless moorhen of Gough Island, were both named after whaling Captain George Comer? Read More...
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- ...that aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities? Read More...
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- ...that Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals? Read More...
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- ... that sea snail Limacina helicina (pictured) is a keystone species in Arctic open seas?
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