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Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) Territorial Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Herschel Island, Yukon's first territorial PARK (established in 1987) is located just off the northern coast of the Yukon mainland on the BEAUFORT SEA. The island is in an area of great scientific and ecological interest due to the Beaufort Gyre, an ocean current which carries warm, fresh water from the MACKENZIE RIVER delta along the Yukon coast. As a result, the HERSCHEL ISLAND area is unusually rich in freshwater and saltwater marine life, birds and large mammals including predators like seals and bears. thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0011261   (218 words)

Herschel Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Herschel Island is an island in the Beaufort Sea, which is considered part of the Arctic Ocean. Pursuant to the policy of evacuating remote native areas (both Inuit and Indian) common to many Canadian provincial and territorial governments in the post-World War II era, the island's Inuvialuit population was gradually moved eastward, to towns in the Northwest Territories such as Aklavik and Inuvik. The RCMP detachment on the island was withdrawn in 1964. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/herschel_island   (442 words)

L.L.Bean: Park Search - Herschel Island Territorial Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The waters around Herschel Island are also a haven for fish and marine mammals. The dry, cold climate of Herschel Island preserves wood longer than the warmer, moister weather of the south. Herschel Island became the Yukon's first territorial park in July 1987 through the settlement of Inuvialuit land claims. www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/2014llt.htm   (1537 words)

Tourism & Culture - Cultural Services - Heritage Resources Unit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Herschel Island Territorial Park is the first territorial park established in the Yukon. In 1987 Herschel Island was designated a Territorial Park by the Government of the Yukon in accordance with the terms of the I.F.A. The Government of the Yukon and the Inuvialuit share responsibility for planning, managing and protecting Herschel Island. From 1910 to 1931, Herschel Island was subdistrict headquarters for the R.C.M.P. in the Western Artcic. www.yukonheritage.com /publications-herschelhistoric.htm   (5213 words)

Government of Yukon - Department of Environment - Herschel Island Qikiqtaruk Park Caribou, muskoxen, and grizzly bears are occasionally seen on the island, crossing to Herschel from the mainland, swimming in summer or walking on the ice during the winter. On the island, their houses were dug into the beach gravel and had driftwood walls covered with hides and sod. Herschel island's wildlife, vegetation and historic resources are sensitive to human disturbance. www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca /parks/herschel.html   (1599 words)

Herschel Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Named in 1826 by John FRANKLIN after the English astronomer Sir William Herschel, its geographical features were named in 1889 by Commander C.H. Stockton of USS Thetis. Beginning in 1889, the island was used as a wintering station by American WHALING ships. In February 1924 ALIKOMIAK AND TÀTIMAGANA were hanged at the island for murder, the first Inuit to be executed under Canadian law. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0003732   (147 words)

Birds Observed between Point Barrow and Herschel Island on the Artic Coast of Alaska At Herschel Island I found collecting prospects were so bright and I was so kindly received by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that I decided to remain there while the "Polar Bear" continued on her whaling voyage to Banks Island. At Herschd Island a flock, all with molting primaries and unable to fly, was noted on August 1, 1914, and a speci- men collected there a week later had fresh wing and tail feathers nearly two-thirds grown. The last fall migrant was noted at Herschel Island in a dry creek bed on August 1, 1914. elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Condor/files/issues/v045n02/p0049-p0057.html   (9708 words)

A trip to Herschel Island erschel Island is located on the north shore of the Yukon Territory and embraces the Arctic Ocean. he island is nowadays non inhabited but intensively studied during the short summers because of its specific location on the Yukon Coast. The island's shoreline is undergoing tremendous coastal erosion due to melting of ice-rich cliffs and enhanced wave action. www.geog.mcgill.ca /grad/lantuit/herschel   (111 words)

Yukon Notebook - Yukon's Territorial Parks Herschel Island received its English name on July 17, 1826 when arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin, sighted it and named it after Sir John Herschel, noted British chemist and astronomer. The mission was used less often after that but the police continued to use the island as their area headquarters for many years. Despite its luxuriant carpet of plantlife, the Herschel landscape is rapidly eroding on its edges. www.yukonweb.com /notebook/tparks.html   (4100 words)

Marcel Granger — Herschel Island Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The island was used by American whalers as a wintering station from 1890. The Beaufort «Gyre» or clockwise circulation of the Beaufort Sea brings warm nutrient-rich fresh water to the island which supports the fish population and attracts seals, which in turn attracts polar bears and arctic foxes. In addition to the arctic flora, mammals, birds and sea life, the island boasts archaeological treasures of the Thule culture (1000-1600 A.D.), people who had a sophisticated sea-hunting technology and permanent villages of houses made from stone, whalebones and turf. www.lino.com /~marcelg/pc_yk_an.htm   (224 words)

Wabash Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Herschel Island will be the northern most part of our trip, lying over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The island is located in the Mackenzie Bay, and was once the home of a vigorous whaling station. The island also served as a post for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. www.bright.net /~apax/wa01002.htm   (88 words)

Herschel Island Patrol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) All six participants will be trekking 600 kilometers on snowmobile from Old Crow RCMP Detachment to Herschel Island Detachment area. Herschel Island is in the Detachment area of Old Crow RCMP and, although not regularly patrolled, there are two grave sites which require yearly maintenance. When on Herschel Island, the patrol team will visit a former Northwest Mounted Police (NWMP) Detachment and pay their respects to two NWMP graves. www.oldcrow.yk.net /herschel1.htm   (395 words)

EPA: Federal Register: Small Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Movement of Steel Drilling ... Potential Effects of SDC Mobilization and Associated Activities on Marine Mammals Potential harassment of marine mammals will result from the noise generated by the operation of towing vessels during SDC mobilization between Cross Island and Herschel Island and the noise generated during equipment removal of the SDC. The principal measures undertaken to ensure that the SDC relocation will not have an adverse impact on subsistence activities is a Conflict Avoidance Agreement (CAA), Plan of Cooperation, and an operation schedule prior to the annual bowhead whale subsistence hunt, as amended on June 3, 2003. Proposed Authorization NMFS proposes to issue an IHA for the harassment of marine mammals incidental to movement of a SDC from Cross Island, McCovey Prospect, AK through the Beaufort Sea to Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, or, as a backup, to the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf waters north of West Dock, and associated activities. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2003/June/Day-18/e15408.htm   (2104 words)

New Parks North - Yukon - Herschel Island Whether it is a long term phenomenon or a temporary anomaly, the geomorphology of Herschel Island has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Summer meltwater patterns have changed threatening hundreds of graves, and coastal flooding from encroaching seawater has increased. Herschel Island Territorial Park was created through the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. www.newparksnorth.org /herschel.htm   (259 words)

Parks Canada Agency - Canada World Heritage Sites - Tentative List Vuntut National Park of Canada includes part of the Old Crow Flats, a vast area of lakes, ponds, wandering rivers and sodden tundra that is recognized to be of global importance for breeding and migratory waterfowl. Herschel Island Territorial Park (Qikiqtaruk) protects a unique combination of natural and human heritage and was Yukon’s first territorial park. The entire area was bypassed by the Pleistocene glaciers, as evidenced by palaeontological and archaeological sites which include some of the best-preserved assemblages of ice-age fauna, and some of the oldest human remains yet discovered in the Western Hemisphere. www.pc.gc.ca /progs/spm-whs/itm3-/site4/page1_E.asp   (289 words)

North Star of Herschel Island She is the only fully rigged ship in Canada, meaning that she crosses squares on each of her three masts. She was used from 1936 to 1961 for transport of the winter’s catch of fur to market in early August and for transportation of supplies from Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk to Sachs Harbour on Banks Island in late August and early September when ice conditions permitted sea navigation. Except for three winters frozen in the ice, each fall North Star was hauled onto the beach and launched the following spring using three purchase tackle and hand winched by the whole village over skids of freshly killed seals. northstar.titaniumwebs.com   (304 words)

Term Report 93-95 Herschel Island Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) An Elderhost program was sponsored by the Herschel Island Territorial Park in the 1993 season in order to give elders a chance to relive old memories by visiting the island and to use their stories in developing the park’s interpretive plan. It was a great success for the Aklavik Elders, park staff, and park visitors. Ninety per cent of the visitors to Herschel Island come within a three-week period. www.taiga.net /wmac/Term93-95/tr93-95_herschelispark.htm   (153 words)

METAR Site Information for CWJN in Herschel Island Automatic Weather Reporting System , CA METAR Site Information for CWJN in Herschel Island Automatic Weather Reporting System, CA METAR Information for CWJN in Herschel Island Automatic Weather Reporting System, CA The following information is known about CWJN. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item. Location: Herschel Island Automatic Weather Reporting System, CA Your site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. weather.gladstonefamily.net /site/CWJN   (569 words)

Herschel Island GCP database Home ¦ Oblique view of the island ¦ permafrost and ground Ice ¦ Coastal Erosion ¦ Fly-By The following webpage presents a set of Ground Control Points (GCPs) collected on September 21st and 23rd, 2003 on Herschel Island, Yukon territory and a set of GCPs surveyed in 1975 using typical geodetic and aerotriangulation methods obtained from the National Airphoto Library in Ottawa. Use of this database should be aknowledged by quoting Lantuit and Pollard (2004) (reference). geog.mcgill.ca /grad/lantuit/herschel/gcps.htm   (101 words)

deseretnews.com | Setting sail: Riding high at the tall ships festival at Victoria, B.C. The Russians were equally impressed with Victoria, "It is pretty, people are friendly and it is clean," one sailor said. Blarney Pilgram, North Star of Herschel Island and Thane were among the other local boats participating. Each evening, the Lady Washington and the Lynx, a 122-foot square topsail schooner modeled after a privateer from the war of 1812, sailed out for a one hour pretend gun battle off the Dallas Road waterfront. deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600154656,00.html   (1294 words)

Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River Giclee Print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Promo text: print of Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River for only $69.99. Sitemap: Print categories, Print artists,Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River Art Prints for sale. These posters of Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River come with a 30 day money back guarantee. www.jdhodges.com /posters/cemetery-on-herschel-island-yukon-expedition-firth-river-poster-1018504.html   (307 words)

Marcel Granger — Parc Herschel Island e premier parc territorial du Yukon se trouve sur l'île Herschel. Baptisée Qikiqtaruk par les Inuvialuit, l'île Herschel protège dans son parc le patrimoine naturel et historique. Liens vers d'autres sites sur le Parc Herschel Island www.lino.com /~marcelg/pc_yk.htm   (295 words)

Buy Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River Giclee Print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River If you have any questions or comments about this Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River Giclee Print or any of my other posters, please contact me. Art prints: Cemetery on Herschel Island, Yukon Expedition, Firth River Prints brandy.weblogs.us /poster/cemetery-on-herschel-island-yukon-expedition-firth-river-1018504.html   (261 words)

Term Report 97-99 Herschel Island Territorial Park Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Term Report 97-99 Herschel Island Territorial Park Management The Council met with Yukon Parks Branch officials to discuss a process to review the Herschel Island Territorial Park Management Plan. It was recognized that the Plan, completed in 1991, needs to be reviewed and updated to reflect the increase in visitor numbers and other issues not addressed in the original Plan. www.taiga.net /wmac/Term97-99/herschelilterrparkmplan.htm   (97 words)

Forgotten Places in the North: York Factory, Herschel Island, the Dew Line Paperback - Book Novel Paperback Magazine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Forgotten Places in the North: York Factory, Herschel Island, the Dew Line Paperback Forgotten Places in the North: York Factory, Herschel Island, the Dew Line Paperback DVD's Forgotten Places in the North: York Factory, Herschel Island, the Dew Line Paperback Posters's www.fuzzster.com /r/show/se/3828067.html   (238 words)

Weather Underground Braille Page Herschel Island, Yukon Territory Forecast Weather Underground Braille Page Herschel Island, Yukon Territory Forecast Forecast as of 4:00 PM PST on November 07, 2005 Find the Weather for any City, State or Zipcode, or Country braille.wunderground.com /auto/braille/global/stations/71501.html   (43 words)

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