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THE NORDIC IMPRINT in the CANADIAN ARCTIC by John Bechtel, Freelance Writer THE NORDIC IMPRINT IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC By John Bechtel, Freelance Writer ince many place names of the provinces and parts of the states of North American Arctic may not North and South Dakota, Minnesota Sbe well known to the general and Montana. It is the second largest reader, your enjoyment of this article bay in the world, and connects with will be enhanced by referring to the both the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic. maps. Here are some fun facts which If the Hudson Bay were a landmass may help you to follow the story: instead of body of water, it would be Greenland is the largest island in the about the size of Iran. world. It has a population of 56,000 but If the province of Nunavut were is bigger in size than Mexico that has a a country, it would be 15th in size, population of 122 million. Greenland worldwide. It is also the most desolate has about the same population as and least populous political national Minot, North Dakota, where this subdivision in the world. magazine is published, and they have Most searches for the Northwest been known to share similarities in Passage began by proceeding weather. Greenland has semi-autonomy northward on the western side of under the crown of Denmark. It is not Greenland, between Greenland and a part of Canada. Baffin Island to the Parry Channel The Arctic Archipelago is the large which went due west to the Beaufort group of Arctic islands north of the Sea, and separated the Queen Elizabeth Canadian mainland. There are more Islands to the north from Victoria than 36,500 of these islands of varying Island and Banks Island to the south. sizes, including Victoria Island and Once in the Beaufort Sea, ice was Ellesmere Island, both among the the only obstacle on the way to Alaska’s ten largest islands in the world. The Prudhoe Bay and Point Barrow on archipelago is 1500 miles wide at its the north shore. Successful explorers base, and stretches 1200 miles from followed the bend south through the the mainland of Canada to the most Chukchi Sea, and then through the northern tip of Ellesmere Island. Bering Strait. Depending on their final The Northwest Passage is the long destination, they followed the west sought-after navigable water route coast of Alaska southward to Nome through these mostly barren islands (home of the Nome Gold Rush) and as a short cut from the Atlantic to farther south and east to Kodiak Island the Pacific. Arctic ice blocking the or Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian waterways has almost always made this Islands. passage incredibly dangerous if not There are a number of variations impossible. of this Northwest Passage, including Hudson Bay is the huge bay in the beginning in Alaska and working subarctic region south of the Arctic your way through the archipelago to Circle west of Labrador, north of Greenland in the east. Going either Quebec, and east of Nunavut, the way, much depends on ice conditions, newest and largest of the Canadian which can fluctuate by the day and provinces. It drains six Canadian even the hour. (Continued on page 34) BACKGROUND PHOTO: WWW.NSIDC.ORG 3@ SPRING 2016 | SCANDINAVIAN PRESS SCANDINAVIAN PRESS | SPRING 2016 3# (Continued from page 32) Climate change changes or hundreds of years the Northwest Passage was the stuff of legend, protected him. everything F passionately believed but never verified. Incredibly, the story begins with His travelogue on the Silk Road Fate intervened in two unanticipated a family of adventurers and merchants, the greatest of which was Marco became the most authoritative and ways that changed the course of that Polo, the godfather of travel writing as we know it today. Marco’s overland trip influential such document ever. And little bit of history. on the ancient Silk Road took him from Venice to Beijing, China, then known as as translations of it spread, it made First, there was climate change. Cathay. His trip there, his stay, and his return took a total of 26 years, from 1271 to nascent and developing European What is referred to as the “Little Ice 1295 CE. monarchs hunger for similar wealth Age” came to the Far North, including He was both a man of his time, and ahead of his time. He was able to and power as he described at the court Greenland. As the temperature comprehend and marvel at cultures totally alien to his own, as he traveled of Kublai Khan. They wanted to see dropped, navigable waters vital to thousands of miles through countries that are known today as Georgia, Iran, it, verify and emulate it, experience shipping and trade with the homeland Afghanistan, their spices and other treasures, and countries became clogged with ice Mongolia, China, bring them home. And they were in a where little or none was known before. Indonesia, India, hurry. Twenty-six years was too long. It became increasingly difficult to and many others; They wondered if they could get to maintain and feed herds of cattle, WWW.MAPSINTERNATIONAL.CO.UK MAP: across uncharted Cathay and the Far East by going in the traditional occupation of Norse deserts, dangerous the opposite direction; by going west. farmers. mountain passes, Every European monarch who had Secondly, the Black Plague was Scotia. Once they figured out that they extreme weather, an empire or who lusted for one, got sweeping through Europe, and as had bumped into a minor obstacle hostile locals, and in on the act. The search was on for shipping died, essential supplies and between their home countries and wild animals. a Northwest Passage. As they turned tools from home were no longer their intended destination—namely the He became a their attention westward, they may available to the colonists, and interest North American continent—the rush Red: Polo’s route to China Green: Polo’s return route trusted confidant have discovered, to their surprise, that in Greenland ivory was being replaced was really on to get over it or through MAP: WWW.IDMARK.COM MAP: of Kublai Khan, they were not the first Europeans to by cheaper ivory from Africa. Life it, in order to get to where they thought Marco Polo’s historic route from Italy to China-1271-1295 CE. who hosted and have done so. got a lot harder. The Norse colonists the wealth really was—in the Far East. could abandon farming and adapt Compared to Marco Polo’s travel Why the Norse got there first farms. These Norse people accepted the Today there is an uninhabited to an Inuit lifestyle and means of reports from the East Indies, the North The first known Europeans in North sovereignty of Norway, and they traded Skraeling Island in the Arctic survival, but there were limits to American continent had little to offer; America were Norse seafarers who with the Inuits, whom they called Archipelago, about 1½ miles long and how far they wanted to assimilate a lot of wilderness and uncivilized first settled Iceland, which—in time, Skraelings. The seal furs and walrus 1 mile wide, and its chief claim to fame without losing their cultural identity. indigenous people who ran around half became a useful stepping stone to ivory found attractive prices back in the is a large and successful archaeological Or they could go home. Farm land naked. The term “northwest passage” further westward exploration. Some home countries, and the trans-Atlantic site providing proof that the Vikings in the home countries was becoming was coined in 1587 by a geographer of them made it to what is today shipping brought supplies to the Norse traded with the Inuits in a relationship available as previous owners died of named Richard Hakluyt who thought Newfoundland. Eric Asvaldsson (the colonies vital to their survival and that was not always tranquil. the Plague, and perhaps this tipped the there had to be a passage “to go to Red), was banished from Iceland for culture. scales in favor of leaving. Within 500 Cathay and the East Indies.” killing a couple men, and he explored years of its founding, ‘Little Europe’ (Continued on page 36) disappeared shortly before the next the southwestern corner of Greenland, Below: The four trips of Christopher planning a colony of his own. Not wave of Europeans began. Each of the newcomers suffered from the Christopher Columbus, by artist Columbus to America, based on a map one to quibble over details, he called Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547). in Lisbon, Portugal, circa 1490. it Greenland to entice recruits from same conceit; that they were the first back home, arguably the first instance to arrive—completely unaware that of misleading real estate advertising in a previous European civilization had North America. already come and gone. This was about 1000 C.E., long before Marco Polo. The northern European The North American continent region that these Norse had previously disappoints again called home was enjoying unusually In the late fifteenth century, Spain warm weather that encouraged sent Christopher Columbus to find a exploration to distant shores. They were way to the East Indies by going west, farmers looking for land, not a passage and John Cabot planted the English to the riches of the Far East, something flag on what he thought was Asia and they knew nothing about. promptly claimed whatever it was to At their peak, Norse settlements in now belong to the Crown. No one Greenland had a combined population knows for sure, but he had probably of 3,000 to 5,000. Archeologists have landed on what is today the Canadian confirmed remains of at least 400 “Summer in the Greenland coast” circa 1000, by artist Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen.
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