Banks Island

Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.

HMS Investigator, Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years, Recovered In Canada 2010

The focus of the analysis by Berkes and Jolly [3] is a Canadian Arctic community, Sachs Harbour, on Banks Island, NWT.

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Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.

HMS Investigator, Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years, Recovered In Canada 2010

"The plot is set 120 kilometers north of Sachs Harbour, at Banks Island in the month of September," Larsson wrote in the e-mail, which Holmberg made available to The Associated Press.

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But before he could sail into the Beaufort Sea, the ship was blocked by pack ice and forced to winter-over in Prince of Wales Strait along the east coast of Banks Island.

HMS Investigator, Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years, Recovered In Canada 2010

Variation between snow conditions at Peary caribou and muskox feeding sites and elsewhere in foraging habitats on Banks Island in the Canadian High Arctic.

Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic 2009

The history, status and management of muskoxen on Banks Island.

Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic 2009

Although annual die-offs of 60 to 300 caribou occurred during the winters of 1987 – 1988, 1988 – 1989, and 1990 – 1991 when freezing rains occurred [22], Larter and Nagy [23] concluded that the drop in number of Banks Island caribou in 1994 and in 1998 happened despite high calf production, high overwinter survival rates of calves, and less severe winter snow conditions.

Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic 2009

Climate change and the Inuvialuit of Banks Island, NWT: using traditional environmental knowledge to complement western science.

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

First records of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) from Banks Island and other records of Pacific salmon in Northwest Territories, Canada.

Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009