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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 01: Geology and Allied Subjects
Introduction -- Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Glossary: Introductory Note -- Glossary of Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Terms -- Outline of the Economic Geology of Alaska -- Physiography of Alaska -- Stratigraphy and Geologic History of Alaska -- Explorations in Alaska by the United States Geological Survey -- Volcanoes of Alaska -- Earthquakes in the Arctic Area -- Meteorological Factors Affecting Variation of Glaciers Along the Alaskan Coast -- Geology of Arctic Canada -- Geology of Greenland -- Geology of Svalbard -- Geology of Siberia -- Geology of the European North, U.S.S.R. -- Geology of Novaya Zemlya -- Hydrology
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 02-A: Permafrost-Engineering
Introduction -- Permafrost as a Natural Phenomenon -- Engineering Problems and Construction in Permafrost Regions -- Physics of Ground Frost -- Soil Mechanics in Permafrost Regions -- Natural Cold Storage -- Civil Engineering [Cold Weather Operations; Work Feasibility; Arctic Surveying; Highways, Bridges and Protection from Ice Damage; Drainage, Flood Control and Beach Erosion in Alaska; Strength and Uses of Fresh and Salt Water Ice; Construction and Maintenance of Airfields in the Far North Regions; Excavations and Foundations; Emergency, Temporary, and Semi-permanent Housing for Polar Areas; Industrial Structures in Alaska; Arctic Construction Methods; Transportation Over Land and Ice]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 02-B: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Cautionary Remarks -- Effect of Extreme Arctic Cold on Materials -- Petroleum Products for Arctic Winter Use in Automotive Equipment -- Tractor-Type Transportation Units for Arctic Operation -- Sled-Type Transportation Equipment for Arctic Operations -- Analysis of Design Factors for Power, Heating, Ventilating, and Refrigeration Systems -- Power Plant Development and Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems -- Mining Engineering [Mining in Northern Climates; Prospecting and Exploration of Minerals in the Arctic and Subarctic Alaska; Gold Dredging in Subarctic and Arctic America; Construction for Placer-Mining Operations; Design of Dredges for the Far North Placers; Coal Mining in Spitsbergen; Blasting in Surface and Drift Operations in the Far North; Safety in Mining in Alaska] -- Petroleum Engineering; [Petroleum in the Arctic; Petroleum Exploration in Arctic Alaska; Arctic Alaska Petroleum Exploration and Drilling Operation; Geological and Geophysical Operations; Seismograph and Gravity Meter Operations; Deep Well Logging Methods in Arctic Alaska; Development of Oil Fields in Canada's North; Geology of the Athabaska Bituminous Sands; Development of Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta] -- Sanitary Engineering; [Arctic Sanitary Engineering; Arctic Insect Pests and Their Control]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 03: Zoology (Excluding Birds)
Introduction -- Part 1: Terrestrial Zoology [Vertebrates; Invertebrates] -- Part II: Marine and Freshwater Zoology [Marine; Freshwater]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 04: Zoology (Birds)
Introduction -- Economic Use of Birds in Alaska -- Economic Use of Birds in Greenland -- Migration of Northern Birds -- Bird Write-ups [Classification of Arctic Birds; Gaviiformes (Loons); Colymbiformes (Grebes); Procellariiformes (Albatrosses, Fulmars, Shearwaters, Petrels); Pelecaniformes (Gannets, Cormorants); Ciconiiformes (Herons); Anseriformes (Swans, Geese, Ducks); Falconiformes (Eagles, Hawks, Ospreys, Falcons); Galliformes (Ptarmigans, Grouse, Partridges, Quails); Gruiformes (Cranes, Rails); Charadriiformes (Oystercatchers, Plovers, Sandpipers, Phalaropes, Gulls, Terns, Auks); Cuculiformes (Cuckoos); Strigiformes (Owls); Apodiformes (Swifts); Coraciiformes (Kingfishers); Piciformes (Woodpeckers); Passeriformes (Perching Birds)]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 05: Plant Sciences (General)
Introduction -- Bacteria -- Algae -- Algae: Planktonic Groups -- Fungi -- Lichens -- Bryophytes -- Vascular plants -- Ecology and Physiology -- Paleobotany -- Various Topics
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 06: Plant Sciences (Regional)
Introduction -- Canadian Eastern Arctic -- Flora and Vegetation between 55 and 60 N. in Quebec and Labrador -- Flora and Vegetation of Greenland -- Flora and Vegetation of Iceland -- Flora and Vegetation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen -- Phytogeography and Vegetation of the Soviet Arctic Region -- Phytogeography and Vegetation of the Bering Sea District -- Flora and Vegetation of Arctic Alaska, Yukon, and Northwestern Canada -- Vegetation of the Central and Southern Mackenzie River Basin -- Soils -- Economic Botany -- Agriculture and Horticulture
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 07: Meteorology and Oceanography
Introduction -- The Meteorology of the Arctic Region -- Canadian Meteorology -- The Climate of the American Northlands -- United States Weather Bureau -- First International Polar Year (1882-83) -- Second International Polar Year (1932-33) -- Oceanography of the Arctic -- Arctic Sea Ice -- Submarines in the Polar Sea -- Arctic Tides -- The Uses of Ice -- Greenland Inland Ice Weather Stations -- The Ice of the Seas in the North American Arctic -- Daylight and Darkness in High Latitudes
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 08: Anthropology and Archeology
Introduction -- The Pacific Eskimo -- Bering Sea and Arctic Coast Eskimos of Alaska -- The Copper Eskimos -- The Hudson Bay Eskimos -- Ethnology of the Greenland Eskimos -- The Aleuts -- The Indians [Regional Description; Peoples of Northern Eurasia; Acculturation; Archaeology; Regional Description of Prehistoric Eskimo Cultures; Regional Description of Prehistoric Cultures in North Eurasia]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 09: Transportation and Communications
Introduction -- Arctic Skin Boats -- Arctic Pioneer Craft -- Early Vessels in Arctic Exploration and Voyaging -- Design and Development of Arctic Trading Vessels -- The Development and Design of Arctic Whaling and Sealing Vessels -- Past and Present Coast Guard Vessels for the Arctic -- Water Transportation in the Canadian Shield -- Land and Ice [The Alaska Highway; The Canol Project; Tractor Tram Transportation; Greenland: Over-Ice Transportation; Canadian Yukon Railway; The Hudson Bay Railway; National Transcontinental Railway; Ontario Northland Railway; White Pass and Yukon Railway; Yukon Telegraph Service; Alaska Highway Telephone System] -- Air; The Expansion of Aviation into Arctic and Sub-Arctic Canada; Canadian Pacific Air Lines; Northern Canadian “Bush" Flying; Canada's Northern Airports and Flying Routes]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 10: Soviet North, Geography and General
Introduction -- Outline -- Lower Amur Oblast -- Arkhangelsk -- Kamchatka Territory -- Kandalaksha -- Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelia) -- Khabarovsk Territory -- Khibiny Mining and Industrial Combine -- Kirovsk -- Apatite, calcium fluophosphate (Kola Peninsula) -- Nepheline (Kola Peninsula) -- Sphene -- Koriak National Okrug -- Krasnoyarsk Krai -- Monchegorsk -- Nenets National Okrug -- Niva River -- Northern Dvina River -- Yakutia Territory -- Yamalo-Nenets National Okrug -- Khanty-Mansi (Ostyako-Vogul) National Region -- Evenki National Region -- Russian Hydrographical Expedition
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 11: Territorial Sovereignty and History
Introduction -- Territorial Sovereignty in the Arctic -- Airspace Rights Over the Arctic -- History [Early Mediterranean Views on the Northlands; Arctic Cartography. Part I. From Earliest Times to 1900; Arctic Cartography. Part II. The Period From About 1900 to 1949; Mapping of the Arctic: A selected bibliography; Arab Geography; Skridfinns (Lapps); Falconry; Island of Mayda; Islands of Demons; The Medieval Church in New World; Shakespeare and the Arctic; Voyages of William Barents (Paper copy has "Shakespeare and the Arctic voyages of William Barents"; The Hanseatic League; Muscovy or Russia Company; The Zeno Voyages; The Cortereal Voyages; Brazil Island; Busse Island; Polar Entrances to Hollow Earth (Symmes Theory); Search for the Northwest Passage; The Dixon-Meares Controversy of 1790-1791; The Dixon-Meares Controversy of 1790-1792; The Dixon-Meares Controversy of 1790-1793; The Franklin Search; History of Arctic Exploration Since the Introduction of Flying, with Selected Bibliography]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 12: Alaska, Geography and General
Introduction -- Northern Alaska Geographical Items in alphabetical order -- St. Lawrence Island -- Nunivak Island -- The Aleutian Islands -- Mount McKinley -- Additional Alaska Geographical Items in alphabetical order -- General [Promyshlenniki; The Russian American Company; History of the Fur Seal; The Alaska Commercial Company (1868-1940); H. Liebes Company; The Alaska Boundary; The University of Alaska]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 13: Canada, Geography and General
Introduction -- Various Geographical Items (multiple articles) -- Bylot Island -- General [Administration of the Canadian North; Health Services in Northern Saskatchewan; The Department of National Health and Welfare; Canada: Indian and Eskimo Health Surveys; Medicine in the Canadian Arctic; Family Allowances in Northern Canada; Wildlife Preserves and Sanctuaries in Arctic and Sub arctic Canada; Aerial Photography in Northern Canada; Northern Photography; Religious Missions in Northern Canada; Mineral Possibilities of Yukon Territory, Canada; Baird-Bray Expedition, 1938-39; Baird-Bray Expedition, 1938-40; Baird-Bray Expedition, 1938-41; Exercise Lemming; Exercise Musk-Ox]
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 14: Greenland, Svalbard, Ect." Geography and General
Introduction -- Climate of Greenland -- The Voyage of Powell Knutson -- Whaling: Greenland and Davis Strait Fishery -- Greenland During and Since the Second World War -- Greenland Ovibos in Captivity and Under Domestication -- Ovibos in Northeast Greenland -- Svalbard: Geography -- Jan Mayen: Geography -- Geographical Items on East Greenland (in alphabetical order) -- Geographical Items on West Greenland (in alphabetical order) -- Geographical Items on North Greenland (in alphabetical order)
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Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 15: Biography
Introduction -- Luigi Amedeo Abruzzi -- Roald Amundsen -- William Baffin -- Aleksandri Andrevich Baranov -- Frederick William Beechey -- (Adm.) Sir Edward Belcher -- Silas Bent -- Emil Bessels -- Stephen Borough -- Louis Arner Boyd -- Alfred H. Brooks -- William Spiers Bruce -- Richard Chancellor -- Aleksei Ilich Chirikov -- Henry B. Collins, Jr. -- Augustine Courtauld -- John Davis -- Peter Warren Dease -- Max Demarest -- Semen Dezhnev -- George Dixon -- Due d'Orleans -- George Mellis Douglas -- Carl Ben Eielson -- Otto Febricius -- Jane Franklin -- Sir John Franklin -- W. A. Graah -- A(dolphus) W(ashington) Greely -- Charles Wesley Hawkesworth -- Samuel Hearne -- William Herbert Hobbs -- Gustav Frederick Holm -- William Lauriston Howard -- Henry W. Howgate -- George Kennan -- Richard King -- Frane Reinhold Kjellman -- Lauge Koch -- J.F.G. Laperouse -- Martin Lindsay -- George Francis Lyon -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- John Meares -- Walter Curran Mendenhell -- Gerhard Friedrich Mueller -- Alexander F. Middendorf -- Jens Munk -- Sir George Strong Nares -- Sir William Edward Parry -- Josephine Diebitsch Peary -- Robert E(dwin) Peary -- Emile Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot -- Pytheas -- Alfred de Quervain -- Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov -- Sir John Richardson -- Henrik Johannes Rink -- John Rodgers -- William Scoresby, Junior -- Charles Sheldon -- Grigor Ivanich Shelekhov -- Sir George Simpson -- Tomas Simpson -- Georg Wilhelm Steller -- G. M. Stoney -- Harald U. Sverdrup -- John Cleves Symmes -- James Williams Tyrrell -- Joseph Burr Tyrrell -- George Vancouver -- Baron Eduard Vasilievich von Toll -- Gino Watkins -- Sir Hubert Wilkins -- John Wilkins -- Sir Hugh Willoughy -- James M. Wordie
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