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This baleen on a gravel beach at Repulse Bay is being picked up and made into jewelry by local artists.

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Last few yards of baleen not yet gathered. For heads of bowheads harvested at Repulse Bay, pls see www.flickr.com/photos/318563 36@N03/6236782842/

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Sit in these rock kayaks and win by spearing the most target loops running by on ropes....

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neat little polar bear carving at the Iqaluit airport. Is it dancing? to the...

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Until the day when there are regular submersible rides to the deep, dark ocean floor off the BC...

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Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011  |  Map

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Unlucky laker parasitized by sea lamprey, the Great Lakes' most graphic example of invasive species.

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Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011  |  Map

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at the entrance to Naujaat's small craft harbour. Three whales have been harvested by the community in the past ten years.

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Uploaded on Oct 11, 2011  |  Map

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Clearwater Fiord, South Baffin Island, Nunavut.

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A delicate lifeform from an exceptional place of preservation. A fossil treasure seen at the 2011...

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Uploaded on Oct 1, 2011  |  Map

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Late summer flowering plant, all of five inches tall, of large-flowered wintergreen on Baffin Island...

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Sun-loving algae mounds ~450 million years old, otherwise known as stromatolites. Beside the Ottawa...

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011  |  Map

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Blue sky, Canada's capital city skyline, the roar of traffic, university geology students for scale...

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011  |  Map

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One of many mineral treasures at the 2011 Ottawa Gem and Mineral Show. Two foot long...

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Uploaded on Sep 26, 2011  |  Map

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One of many avant-garde treasures at the 2011 Ottawa Gem and Mineral Show. Foot wide artform from...

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Uploaded on Sep 26, 2011  |  Map

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Abandoned Hudson Bay Company post halfway between Cape Dorset and Kimmirut on the south shore of...

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Uploaded on Sep 22, 2011  |  Map

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Example of -large- scale folding in layered rocks on the south coast of Baffin Island,...

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Uploaded on Sep 22, 2011  |  Map

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Best viewed large. Blue skies and water ponds say it ain't so. But ancient black rocks, glaciation...

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Uploaded on Sep 3, 2011

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The ductility of Aphebian-aged marble.

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