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Nunavut [a] is the largest, easternmost, and northernmost territory of Canada.It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act [12] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, [13] which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government.
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") [1] [2] [3] are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, [4] and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), as well as north of Thlewiaza River ("Big River"), [5] in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq ...
If an observer located on either the North Pole or the South Pole were to define a "day" as the time from the maximal elevation of the Sun above the horizon during one period of daylight, until the maximal elevation of the Sun above the horizon of the next period of daylight, then a "polar day" as experienced by such an observer would be one ...
But then the skies went dark. And they stayed dark -- day after day, month after month -- from early 536 to 537. Across much of eastern Europe and throughout Asia, spring turned into summer and ...
Multiple exposure of midnight sun on Lake Ozhogino in Yakutia, Russia Timelapse video of Lapland's midnight sun in Rovaniemi, Finland. Because there are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, apart from research stations, the countries and territories whose populations experience midnight sun are limited to those crossed by the Arctic Circle: Canada (Yukon, Nunavut, and ...
But then the skies went dark. And they stayed dark -- day after day, month after month -- from early 536 to 537. Across much of eastern Europe and throughout Asia, spring turned into summer and ...
The Dr. Neil Trivett Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory is an atmospheric baseline station operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada located about 6 km (3.7 mi) south south-west of Alert, Nunavut, on the north-eastern tip of Ellesmere Island, about 800 km (500 mi) south of the geographic North Pole.
Tombstone in the chapel of Filippo e Giacomo, Nosedo, dated to CE 536 (the second year after the consulship of Decius Paulinus). The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. [1]