Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit by Robert V. Eno Downloadable article at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63662 “Iqaluit is unique among Canadian Arctic communities in that it originated not from a commercial venture, such as mining or the fur trade, or as a… Read More »Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit
Camp Fistclench was a prototype for Camp Century “In 1955, Camp Fistclench was constructed 220 miles east of Thule, adjacent to the AC&W site, to test and evaluate methods of ice cap construction and to provide a summer base camp… Read More »Camp Fistclench
CAMP CENTURY EVOLUTION OF CONCEPT AND HISTORY OF DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE Technical Report 174 by Elmer F. Clark OCTOBER 1965, U.S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND, COLD REGIONS RESEARCH & ENGINEERING LABORATORY, HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE Available at: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/477706.pdf “This report tells… Read More »Camp Century – Project Iceworm Paper
Clenched in the JAWS of America? Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972 by Daniel Heidt Climate change is transforming the Arctic. Questions abound about what this will mean for the Canadian Forces, for Canada’s sovereignty position, for… Read More »Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972
Arctic Mission 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011 An account of the US Navy’s work in the Arctic in 1958 telling the story of the USS Nautilus but also flights by… Read More »Arctic Mission
Drift Station – Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science by William F. Althhoff Potomac Books, Washington, 2007 “Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from… Read More »Drift Station
The Establishment of Alert, N.W.T., Canada by J. Peter Johnson, Jr. 1989 ABSTRACT. The Joint Arctic Weather stations of Canada and the United States were built in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada. The Eureka and Resolute stations were… Read More »The Establishment of Alert, N.W.T., Canada
Northwest Staging Route The route wаs developed іn 1942 due tо several reasons. Initially, the United States Army Air Corps 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command аt Great Falls Army Airfield wаs ordered tо organize аnd develop аn air route tо… Read More »Northwest Staging Route
The Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields This article by Richard S. Finnie is a riposte to Barry’s “Punch” Dickins and the Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields. It is available in Arctic VOL.33 NO. 2 (JUNE 1980) p.273-279
Abstract: Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C. H. “Punch” Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an “unauthorized” military air route to Norman Wells much earlier than… Read More »“Punch” Dickins and the Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields
The DEW line was a set of early warning radar sites built in the Arctic by USA in the 1950s.
Project Ice Worm was a project at a secret USA base built under the Greenland icesheet to act as a research base for creating a hidden base for ICBMs.