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  Welcome to Nunavut, Canada
Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
Nunavut is both the least populated and the largest of the provinces and territorities of Canada.
Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin/Kivalliq regions), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District of Mackenzie.
www.hometowncanada.com /nu   (1289 words)

  
  Eureka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eureka is an 1848 prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Eureka Valley is also the name of two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco and the other a valley in the eastern part of the state.
The Eureka Maru is a fictional starship in the television series Andromeda.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eureka   (271 words)

  
 Eureka Hepa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eureka, Victoria in Australia More than one of these places are or were involved in the gold mining industry, with the phrase 'I found it' having an obvious connection.
The roots of the Eureka Stockade uprising lay in the inability of a fledgling colonial government to cope with the new demographics of the colony.
The village of Eureka was platted in 1858 along the route of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/30/eureka-hepa.html   (1620 words)

  
 Eureka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eureka is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes.
"Eureka" is a simple form of the verb heuriskein, meaning "to find"; it means "I have found it!" As a result, Eureka is a common interjection to usually express the triumphant discovery of a significant scientific or intellectual fact.
The expression is quoted as the state motto of California, referring to the momentous discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill in 1848.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/e/eu/eureka.html   (190 words)

  
 On sovereignty patrol in the frozen Arctic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
EUREKA, NUNAVUT — Allen Pogotak is unfazed about his latest military mission: scouting a trek along one of Canada's last -- and probably least forgiving -- unbeaten paths.
We have to for Canada," the 43-year-old Inuit man said as he inspected his army-issued snowmobile outside of Eureka's weather station, which is located less than 1,200 kilometres south of the North Pole on the western coast of Ellesmere Island.
Pogotak and a small team of soldiers and other Canadian Rangers left Eureka, where they had been resting over the weekend, to travel the entire northwestern coast of Ellesmere Island to Alert, a military base and the country's most northern settlement.
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 Encyclopedia: Ellesmere Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eureka is a small research base on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Baffin Region of Nunavut Baffin Region (Inuktitut: Qikiqtaaluk ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) is a region of Nunavut.
Eureka, which is the second nothernmost settlement in the world, consists of three areas, the "airport" which includes "Fort Eureka" (the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment), the Environment Canada Weather Station and the ASTRO Observatory.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ellesmere-Island   (996 words)

  
 Eureka, Nunavut -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The base consists of three areas, the "airport" which includes "Fort Eureka" (the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment), the Environment Canada Weather Station, and the ASTRO Observatory
Eureka was founded on April 11, 1947 as part of a requirement to set up a network of arctic weather stations.
On this date 110 tons of supplies were airlifted to a promising spot on Ellesmere Island and five prefabricated Jamesway huts were constructed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/eureka,_nunavut.htm   (192 words)

  
 Eureka Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The expression is quoted as the List of state mottosstate motto of California, referring to the momentous California gold rushdiscovery of gold near Sutter's Mill in 1848.
*''Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe)Eureka'' is an 1848 prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe
*''Eureka (1890)Eureka'' is an 1890 built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco, California.
www.echostatic.com /Eureka.html   (257 words)

  
 CFS Eureka(Canadian military camp)
Eureka is a remote arctic camp situated about 500 kms south of CFS Alert(Another military unit).Every year from may to august,there is a military operation named"operation Hurricane"..I had the pleasure to take part of operation Hurricane in 2000
Eureka is situated mid way on Ellesmere Island,(Nunavut) on the west coast of the Island..
Eureka, Ellesmere Island, NWT Canada is the most notable and renown area the 'Rose Rock' is found.
www.geocities.com /eureka2000_ca   (650 words)

  
 Poaceae of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - Puccinellia angustata (R. Br.) Rand and Redfield
Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Hazen Camp, N shore of Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve, 81°49'N, 71°20'W. Blister Hill, SW facing slope beside tiny meandering runoff stream.
Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Franklin Pierce Bay 79°26'N, 75°37'W. Aiken 98–029.
Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Tanquary Camp, Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve, 81°24'N, 76°52'W. S shore of MacDonald River Delta, 1.5 km NE of camp.
www.mun.ca /biology/delta/arcticf/poa/www/popuan.htm   (1346 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Arctic outpost helps scientists track climate change
EUREKA, Nunavut — Sixty years ago Saturday, the "Frozen Chosen" founded this tiny outpost at the top of the world and opened up the High Arctic for the first time to weather research.
The group's first stop was Eureka, on the west coast of Ellesmere Island less than 650 miles south of the North Pole, on April 7, 1947.
Eureka's population fluctuates constantly, but there are permanently eight Environment Canada staff rotating through on a continuous basis.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,660209886,00.html   (731 words)

  
 Videos and Frisbee golf ease the isolation at an Arctic weather base | KOMO 1000 News Radio - News, Weather and Sports ...
EUREKA, Nunavut Territory (AP) - In the middle of nowhere is an understatement.
The Eureka Weather Station in Canada's Arctic is so far north there's no sunlight most of the year and the average temperature during the 10-month winter is 40 below.
In the cherry-red steel lab, nine miles from the Eureka station on an isolated ridge, international scientists house their instruments and collaborate on studies.
www.komoradio.com /news/tech/4750396.html   (492 words)

  
 NEWS - Comcast.net
EUREKA, Nunavut Territory - Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming.
The American and Canadian scientists at the Eureka Weather Station in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, like the Inuit who are seeing their native habitat thaw, are beyond questioning the existence of climate change.
Uttal, Drummond and other American and Canadian scientists recently visited Eureka, an outpost established jointly by Canada and the United States in 1947 and now equipped with instruments that sound like sci-fi inventions _ the ozone spectrophotometer, for instance, or the tropospheric lidar.
www.comcast.net /news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/11/26/528662.html   (895 words)

  
 ALIAS
Eureka, Nunavut, is on the west coast of Ellesmere Island, only 1,100 km from the north pole.
Eureka is in a key location for studies of stratospheric dynamics and ozone depletion.
Eureka was the first of Canada's Joint Arctic weather stations, established in 1947 by the Department of Transport, Air Services Division, Meteorological Branch (eventually to become the Meteorological Service of Canada) in a joint project with the United States Weather Bureau.
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 The Denver Post - Understanding clouds might enlighten us to global warming
Ice melts in Slidre Fiord, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut near the Eureka Weather Station, July 24, 2006.
Some of the clouds above the station, located far above the Arctic Circle, contain more water than they should, given the frigid air near the North Pole, and scientists are trying to determine if the phenomenon is one of the causes, or one of the effects of, the earth's rapidly warming atmosphere.
The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL), is shown shrouded in fog, July 24, 2006 in the Canadian territory of Nunavut near the Eureka Weather Station.
www.denverpost.com /ci_4725854?source=rss   (1112 words)

  
 Eureka Nunavut Information, Yellow Pages, and more
Our Free Classifieds for the State of Nunavut offer items such as used horse trailers, cars, trucks, motorcycles, outboard motors, books, horses, dogs, real estate listings including homes, businesses, and land, apartments for rent, boats and many other items that are for sale by owner.
Our History, Trivia and Facts Pages are populated with interesting, useless and random facts pertaining to Eureka, Nunavut history, Canadian history, family history and the history of names.
Our Free Message Boards Nunavut daily to ensure the appropriateness of the topics for visitors of all ages.
www.hometowncanada.com /nu/Eureka.html   (569 words)

  
 Arctic-Sovereignty-Patrol, Bgt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Canadian Ranger Rodger Hitkolak, from Kugluktuk, Nunavut, taking a GPS reading enroute to Eureka on Thursday, during sovereignty patrol Operation Nunalivut.
EUREKA, Nunavut (CP) - It didn't take long for the Arctic to take its toll on soldiers participating in an unprecedented snowmobile trek to enforce Canadian sovereignty.
A week ago, on the first day of their 8,000-kilometre patrol across and around Ellesmere Island, the 24 soldiers and Inuit Rangers lost two of their snowmobiles and all of their supply-laden komatiks, or sleds.
www.recorder.ca /cp/National/070331/n033103A.html   (584 words)

  
 Condos in Eureka, Nunavut
Eureka, Nunavut boasts a very unique culture and heritage, attracting thousands each year to experience the region's way of life.
Government is developing new opportunities presented by the Internet and the global economy, and residents of Eureka are recognizing that embracing this new technology will create exciting opportunities for their families, so they can remain in Nunavut.
If you are looking for any kind or real estate related service in Eureka, this section of the web site will contain valuable links to a range of professionals specializing in the unique needs of this region of Canada.
www.realestateproperty.ca /secure/condos/nunavut/eureka.html   (321 words)

  
 globeandmail.com: How the 'Frozen Chosen' settled Eureka
The group's first stop was Eureka, on the west coast of Ellesmere Island less than 1,000 kilometres south of the North Pole, on April 7, 1947.
Since then, the station, which is now exclusively operated by Environment Canada, has generated thousands of weather reports and helped keep the rest of the country informed about what kind of conditions to expect from the Far North.
Eureka is home to a wide array of animals and plants, and the area transforms during the summer months from a barren wasteland to a sea of flowers such as Arctic poppies and purple saxifrage.
www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20070406.weureka06/BNStory/ClimateChange/home   (1027 words)

  
 reportonbusiness.com: globeinvestor.com - West Hawk Development Corp.: Technical Report Received on Nunavut Coal ...
Eureka, the nearest community is located along Slidre Fiord, eight kilometers northwest of the coal prospect.
The Nunavut Prospect consists of two properties, the North Fosheim Peninsula Property located on the east side of Eureka Sound on Ellesmere Island and the May Point Property located on the west side of Eureka Sound on Axel Heiberg Island.
Coal seams contained in the Eureka Sound Formation within the Company's Nunavut Prospect range in rank from lignite to subbituminous B. Reflectance studies were used to determine the rank of the coals from lignite (0.15 percent) to high volatile bituminous (0.57 percent).
www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/story/CCNM.20070524.392958_1/GIStory   (1472 words)

  
 Scientists: Climate change clues in sky
Ice melts in Slidre Fiord, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut near the Eureka Weather Station.
EUREKA, Nunavut Territory — Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming.
Uttal, Drummond and other American and Canadian scientists recently visited Eureka, an outpost established jointly by Canada and the United States in 1947 and now equipped with instruments that sound like sci-fi inventions — the ozone spectrophotometer, for instance, or the tropospheric lidar.
www.geo.utexas.edu /climate/NEWS/Nov.27_2006.htm   (941 words)

  
 TheStar.com - sciencetech - Out of thin air, radar reveals Earth's secrets
EUREKA, NUNAVUT- In sub-zero darkness at the end of the long Arctic winter, researcher Wayne Hocking drove the last spike for a unique scientific surveillance network that now stretches from pole to pole.
Installing the equipment at Eureka in mid-February capped a dream that Hocking brought with him when he emigrated to Canada from Australia 14 years ago - a chain of meteor-spotting radars that stretched from Antarctica to the High Arctic.
Manson says Eureka is a prime location for studying large-scale wind movements that play a pivotal role in the severity of ozone depletion over the Arctic every spring.
www.thestar.com /sciencetech/article/196425   (964 words)

  
 Eureka Real Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If you are looking for a specific agency and are not able to find it you may contact us at agencies@agentserver.net and we will do our best to find all contact information for that agency along with a list of proffered agents within it.
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If you have any questions about buying or selling your home in Eureka we have experts who are willing to help you out right away.
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 Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory, Eureka
Located 15 km from Eureka, a remote weather station 1,100 km from the north pole, the ultra-modern facility became a centre for international research.
The building shell was erected in summer 1992 and the scientific instrumentation was installed in 1993.
The most delicate instruments remain in the observatory while the Brewer ozone spectrophotometers have been re-located to the nearby Eureka weather station.
exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca /e/eureka/eureka.htm   (326 words)

  
 Populations of the Arctic Hare - Ukaliq: The Arctic Hare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Because we don't know or understand enough about their movements in and out of certain areas of the northern islands, we can't estimate their actual numbers, even though many herds of more than 100 individuals have been documented.
Personnel at the weather station at Eureka (in Nunavut), reported herds of hundreds or even thousands of hares milling about near the station in the 1970s and 1980s, but such numbers have not been seen in recent years.
A large herd of Arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) at Eureka, Nunavut.
www.nature.ca /ukaliq/021des/040_ppn_e.cfm   (545 words)

  
 Eureka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eureka (or 'Heureka') is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Eureka   (297 words)

  
 Jim and Louise Fly to Eureka in the Canadian Arctic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For more information on these pictures see Eureka Trip or the description of the trip published in the Janary issue of the American Bonanza Society magazine, "An Arctic Adventure".
Note: This is the story I submitted - without later edits - to be updated to the final version soon.
Eureka, NWT, Canada, soon to be Eureka, Nunavut, Canada, the garden of the Arctic
www.wholey.net /eureka/my-photos.html   (256 words)

  
 Polar News
EUREKA, Nunavut â€" It didn't take long for the Arctic to take its toll on soldiers participating in an unprecedented snowmobile trek to enforce Can...
EUREKA, Nunavut (CP) - It didn't take long for the Arctic to take its toll on soldiers participating in an unprecedented snowmobile trek to enforce...
EUREKA, Nunavut â€" It didn't take long for the Arctic to take its toll on soldiers participating in an unprecede...
archive.wn.com /2007/04/01/1400/polar   (733 words)

  
 ArcticNews Syndicaton and News Feed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The premiers of Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories had demanded to be part of any discussions between Ottawa and Washington on whether Canada would join the U.S. missile-shield program.
NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to account for a warming trend in the United States that occurred between 1975 and 1994.
A team of Nunavut film producers are embarking on an ambitious mission to put the legends and stories of every elder in the territory on video.
feed.arcticnews.net /archive/2004_05_01_anc   (6760 words)

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