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Diesel tug (23 m (75 ft) long, 7.0 m (23 ft) wide, 1.5 m (5 ft) draft, 800 hp (600 kW)), built by Yarrows in Esquimalt, used by the Yellowknife Transportation Company on the Mackenzie River/Great Slave Lake routes from 1946 to October 1956 when it sank 40 km (25 mi) miles south of Yellowknife in a storm. The crew was rescued by another ship.
The Ingraham Trail is named after Vic Ingraham, a pioneer Yellowknife businessman of the 1930s–40s. Yellowknife has experienced an aurora borealis tourism boom the last few years and the Ingraham Trail is the prime viewing location. It is common to come across aurora rush after midnight during the peak aurora season, November to March. [1]
Some types of space weather, called Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, can cause the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, to reach farther south and look more spectacular,” she said in a statement.
The purpose of the project is to monitor the frequency and intensity of the Aurora Borealis (Northern lights) in the years that led up to the Solar Maximum that was scheduled to occur in 2013-14. Scientists have noticed that the sun's activity follows a regular cycle and the peak (Solar maximum) is reached every 11 years.
English: Aurora at Yellowknife, Canada. Picture taken with LG G Pro 2. Date: 18 February 2014, 17:49: Source ‘LG G프로2’, 세계 최초 오로라 촬영 성공 ...
Yellowknife [a] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
The town is approximately 300 km (190 mi) southeast of Yellowknife, the territorial capital. The park headquarters for Wood Buffalo National Park is located in Fort Smith. The headquarters and Thebacha Campus of Aurora College is located in Fort Smith; it is the largest of the three campus locations in the Northwest Territories.
Elsewhere during the late-night appearance, Colbert, 60, asked John if "the juices are flowing again," in terms of the artist releasing new music after finishing his Farewell Yellow Brick Road ...