BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Arctic Adventure

DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Arctic Adventure:

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Description of Pictures: Arctic Adventure
September 16, 2013 – February 14th, 2014
In celebration of Canada’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council, the Embassy of Canada is pleased to present Arctic Adventure, a special exhibition developed and produced by Science North – a world renowned science center based in Sudbury, Ontario.
Arctic Adventure takes visitors on a journey of discovery to the Arctic to explore this fascinating environment, through interactive and artifact-based exhibits and audiovisual experiences. Scenic landscapes, depicting the austere beauty of the Arctic provide striking backdrops for the interactive exhibit kiosks –animal adaptations, human adaptations, and the science that is unique to the Arctic.
The Arctic represents 40% of Canada’s landmass and is home to over 110,000 Canadians and approximately 16,000 of the estimated 20,000–25,000 polar bears in the world. Canada’s Inuit have been the stewards of polar bears for thousands of years, and continue to rely on the polar bear for food, clothing and livelihood. 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears. Canada is committed to conserving the polar bear, an iconic species of the North, and also to ensuring that the rights of Aboriginal peoples are maintained and respected.
Arctic Adventure is presented in English, French and Inuktitut. The art gallery of the Embassy of Canada is open to the public, free of charge, Mondays thru Fridays, 9:00am – 5:00 pm.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ECARCA_131025_004.JPG: Arctic Adventure: Welcome to the Arctic! The Arctic has no hard and fast boundary, but its character is easy to define. The North Pole sits in the centre of a large, ice-covered ocean, which in turn is surrounded by barren, frozen land. Despite the harsh conditions, the Arctic is full of life. Animals, plants, and people call the Arctic home. The name Arctic is derived from ‘arctos' [arktoz], the Greek word for ‘bear', referring to the Great Bear and Little Bear constellations that dominate the Northern night sky. The eight nations with territory in the Arctic are Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and the United States. The Arctic is our early warning system – an area extremely sensitive to environmental change, whether it be climate change or increased pollution.
2. ECARCA_131025_022.JPG: How Big Are Icebergs? Icebergs occur in the Atlantic, Arctic and Southern oceans. They are blocks of freshwater ice that break off from glaciers and float out to sea. Only 10% of an iceberg is above the waterline. Icebergs float because the density of ice, 920 kg/m3, is lower than that of seawater at 1025 kg/m3. In the North Atlantic, most icebergs originate from the glaciers of Western Greenland, where 15,000 to 40,000 icebergs are produced annually. The tallest known iceberg in the North Atlantic was 168 metres (550 feet) above sea level, spotted in Melville Bay, Greenland in March 1957. It was as high as a 55 storey building.
3. ECARCA_131025_094.JPG: Musk Ox Hair
4. ECARCA_131025_102.JPG: Whales of the Arctic: There are three true Arctic whales: bowhead, beluga, and narwhal. They are the only whales that may spend their entire lives in the Arctic. These three whales share a unique adaptation to their life in the Arctic: they have no dorsal fin. This fin would hinder their movement in pack ice. Other species, such as blue, fin and humpback wales, can be found in Arctic waters but only during the short Arctic summers.
5. ECARCA_131025_112.JPG: Fly with the Arctic tern! The Arctic tern is the most well travelled animal on the planet! It is the only creature, besides humans, that visits both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Over its 20 to 30 year lifespan, a tern may fly more than 1,000,000 km (620,000 miles). The Arctic tern is the only animal that actually migrates pole to pole, seeking summer at both ends of the earth!
6. ECARCA_131025_122.JPG: The Summer Tundra: The Arctic is dominated by two ecozones, the Boreal Forest, and further north, the Tundra. The treeless rocky tundra with its permanently frozen ground is the ecosystem most closely associated with the far north. It covers over a quarter of Canada and over three-quarters of Alaska. Because of its harsh climate and the presence of permafrost, the tundra is home to many unique plants and animals with some remarkable adaptations.
7. ECARCA_131025_128.JPG: Living in the Arctic: The vast Arctic is the homeland of a number of diverse indigenous peoples. To survive in their extreme Arctic environment, these people have developed many unique technologies, including tools, clothing and methods of travel. Current issues such as natural resource development and climate change are impacting the environment and altering the way of life of Arctic peoples.
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9. ECARCA_131025_135.JPG: Kayak
10. ECARCA_131025_138.JPG: Snow goggles
11. ECARCA_131025_141.JPG: Ulu
12. ECARCA_131025_143.JPG: Life in the Far North: For more than four thousand years, northern aboriginal peoples have inhabited Arctic land and waters from the Mackenzie Delta in the west, to the Labrador coast in the east and from the Hudson's Bay Coast, to the islands of the High Arctic. The ancestors of today's Canadian northern aboriginal peoples lived in communion with nature and followed the migratory patterns of land and sea mammals and fish. Archaeological evidence shows they had skills and techonology to harvest large whales, seals, caribou, muskox, bears, fish and birds, depending on the season and location. People wandered by foot and dog team over large distances, depending on where harvests were plentiful. To this day, of all the animals harvested, Wabusk or Nanuk, the polar bear, is the most venerated. Aboriginal hunters consider the polar bear to be wise, powerful, and almost a man.
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