5 April 2018 It may look easy, but surfacing a nuclear submarine in the Arctic requires careful preparation. Popular Mechanic story: A submarine bursting through the Arctic ice is a powerful image. But it’s not an easy one to pull… Read More »How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice
19 April 2018 Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines to bring Ice Exercise 2018 to an end. A few weeks after punching through the ice off Alaska, the… Read More »Submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through the ice of the North Pole
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
A number of papers related to Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives are available online at the Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies website at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cpmss/issue/view/2442 Introduction (to the papers) by Whitney Lackenbauer Abstract: “Climate change is transforming… Read More »Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives
Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic by HEININEN, Lassi, SERGUNIN, Alexander, YAROVOY, Gleb “Russia’s Arctic military strategy is a vexed question both in the media and in the expert community. Since the planting of a titanium Russian flag at the… Read More »Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic
The Original Symposium was instigated in 2001 and focused on US naval operations and strategic issues “On 17 and 18 April 2001 the Oceanographer of the Navy, the Office of Naval Research, the Arctic Research Commission, and the Naval Ice… Read More »Symposium on Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic
“Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far… Read More »Operation Muskox – Canadian North – 1946
ARCTIC SUBMARINE LABORATORY – Collections of Photographs https://www.sublant.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery/
The Svalbard Archipelago – American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Territories, 1941-1950 edited and with an introduction by P.J. Capelotti Contains a US military report from 1942 that contains descriptions of every aspect of the islands… Read More »The Svalbard Archipelago
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
The Sledge Patrol by David Howarth Collins, London, 1957 The story of wartime dog patrols in the North-East of Greenland during WWII.
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
Russia and the North edited by Elana Wilson Rowe University of Iowa Press, 2009 A series of articles concerning Russia activities in the Arctic covering “circumpolar cooperation, security, fisheries, energy, climate change, population/migration and indigenous peoples“.
Great World War II Battles in the Arctic by Mark Llewellyn Evans Contributions to Military Studies, No. 172, Greenwood Press, London, 1999
