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Baffin Island: BI-22

Baffin Island

BI-22

INDEX

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A

Abisko Symposium (1960), 20, 43, 209n3

Abloviak Fiord, 50

Admiralty Inlet, 12

AINA (Arctic Institute of North America), 20, 77, 81

AINA expeditions, 10, 12, 45, 181–82

aircraft charters: Beaver floatplanes, 50–52, 56–57, 67, 87; Beaver on ski-wheels, 78; Bell helicopters, 89–90, 92, 119, 123–24, 127, 148; Cessna floatplanes, 24, 28–30, 100, 142, 144; Cessnas on ski-wheels, 87, 119; DC-3s on ski-wheels, 47, 77–78, 87, 119, 142; Dominion Observatory helicopter, 35; “The Little Beaver,” 65–67, 66; Norseman floatplane, 38–39; Otters on ski-wheels, 19, 21–22, 61. See also aircraft operations; helicopter support

aircraft operations, 70–71; dramatic liftoffs, landings, and flights, 30, 33, 36, 51, 56–58, 68, 80, 116–17; malfunctions, 29, 33–35, 89–90; refuelling, 51, 67–69. See also aircraft charters

Air Force Island, 9

air photography. See photography

air photo interpretation, 13, 16, 20, 64

Alaska, 178

Alectoria Lake, 60

Andrews, John T.: about, 164, 172; recruitment to Geographical Branch, 41–42; 1961 reconnaissance, 19, 21, 32–37, 39, 40; 1962 fieldwork, 48, 51, 54, 55–56, 189; 1963 fieldwork, 60–61, 69–70, 188; 1965 fieldwork, 87–88; 1966 fieldwork, 117, 128; 1967 fieldwork, 142; published research, 79, 185–86; other mentions, 2, 76, 191

Angaljurjualuk Lake. See Pilik Lake

Anvil Mountain, 110, 111, 112

Archer, Jim, 139

arctic-alpine plant species, 178, 185

Arctic Circle, 7, 8

Arctic Institute of North America. See AINA

Arenaria River, 60

Arnold, Keith, 85, 209n6

Arsenault, Lyn. See Drapier, Lyn

Astarte borealis, 90

Astragalus alpina (Milk vetch), 191

Atlantic Ocean, 3, 180, 188

Atlas of Canada, 137, 214n1 (chap. 9)

Ayr Lake, 10, 148

B

Back to the Future project (2009), 190

Baffin, William, 9

Baffin Bay, 7, 67–68, 180

Baffin Island: early explorations, 9–10, 12–13, 182; maps/mapping and aerial images, 6, 8, 10, 210n10; physical geography and landscape, 7, 9, 23, 100; population, 7; temperatures (historical), 3, 64, 215n10

Baffinland Iron Mines base camp. See Mary River base camp

Baffinland Iron Mines Company, 210n2, 213n4 (chap. 7)

“Baffin-Type” glaciers, 12

Baird, P. D. (Pat), 9–10, 12, 181

Baird Peninsula, 9

Barnes, Howard T., 9

Barnes Ice Cap: about, 12; maps and aerial images, 10, 22, 25, 31, 45, 53–54, 126; as remnant of Laurentide Ice Sheet, 3, 9, 13, 181, 184; transect, 77, 88. See also ice mining operations

Barnes Ice Cap base camp (crest), 47, 49, 62, 62

Barnes Ice Cap base camp (northern margin), 29, 78, 87, 88

Barnett, Martin, 78, 87, 90, 142

Barry, Roger, 76, 145, 165–66, 214n7 (chap. 9)

base camp sites. See individual locations

Beals, C. S., 46

Beauregard, L., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 137, 142

Beschel, Roland: about, 59; 1963 fieldwork, 60, 64, 64, 65; lichenometry research, 4, 188, 211n1 (chap. 5)

Betula nana (Dwarf birch), 190

Birch, Bill, 44–45

Birch, J. W., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Bird, Brian, 44, 81

Birtles, M., 87

Blackadar, Robert, 12

Boas, Franz, 9, 182

botany. See plants and vegetation

Boulder (CO), 139

boulders, 23–24, 26, 35, 110, 111, 121–23, 195. See also mountaintop detritus

Bradley, Bruce, 175

Bradley Air Services, 24, 38, 40

Brassard, Guy, 189

Bray, Reynold, 9

Bridge, Chris, 44, 47, 61–62, 78, 87, 95

British-Canadian Arctic Expedition (late 1930s), 9, 12

Broad Peak, 10

Brodo, I. M., 189

Broughton Island, 135, 142, 186

Bruce Mountains, 9, 67

Buchan Gulf, 9

Buckley, Jane, 186. See Philpot, Jane

Burges, Tony, 96, 137

Burn, Chris, 210n9

Burnett, Spike, 50–52, 54–58, 61, 65–66, 66, 69

Bute Island, 148

Bylot, John, 9

C

C14 dating. See radiocarbon dating

Cambray, Chris, 85

Cambridge Fiord, 9

Cambridge University Expedition (1937), 9, 12

camp structures: A-frame huts, 78, 84, 95, 125; Inugsuin base camp building, 80, 87; Jutland buildings, 23; Parcoll huts, 47, 66–67

Canadian Coast Guard ships. See individual ships

Canadian Hydrographic Service, 20, 142

Canadian Museum of Nature, 189

Canadian National Parks Service, 86

Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, 11, 74, 81–82

Canadian Wildlife Service, 100

Cape Adair, 67

Cape Aston, 90, 185

Cape Christian, 11, 90, 100, 117, 132, 185, 207n7

Cape Hooper, 11, 117

Carex gynocrates, 79

Cassiope tetragona (Arctic mountain heather), 154

CCGS d’Iberville, 119, 135, 142, 148, 151

CCGS John A. Macdonald, 80

CCGS Labrador, 119, 135

CCGS Wolfe, 151

C. glacialis, 79

Champlain, Samuel de, 141, 212n10, 214n2 (chap. 9)

Cherrington, Angus, 78–79

Christian, Doug, 142, 144, 151, 173

Christiansen, E., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Christy, Bob, 181

Church, June. See Ryder, June

Church, Mike: about, 158–59, 172; recruitment to Baffin team, 45; 1962 fieldwork, 49, 51–52; 1963 fieldwork, 61–62, 65; 1963 “rescue,” 69–72; 1964 fieldwork, 78; 1965 fieldwork, 87, 95; 1966 fieldwork, 128; 1967 fieldwork, 142, 145, 146–47, 151; other mentions, 210n9, 212n7

climate change, 3, 79, 190

climate stations, 145

Climatology Section, 43

Clyde Foreland, 119, 132, 185

Clyde Inlet, 9–12, 148

Clyde River settlement, 80, 100, 148

Coast Ranges, 77, 85–86, 185

Cockburn, George, 187, 207n3

Cockburn Land, 9, 11, 207n3

Cockburn Moraines, 20, 28, 52, 68, 184, 207n3

Code, Bob, 60, 80–81, 139

Cole, Jim, 61, 65, 67–72, 87

Coleman, Alice, 76, 137

Cook, Frank, 41, 102

Cordilleran Ice Sheet, 180

Coronation Fiord and Glacier, 10

cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, 187

Cowan, Dick, 67, 125, 159

Cowie, Alexandra, 96, 213nn6–7 (chap. 7)

Craig, Bruce, 13, 180

Crawford, Jim, 142

Crompton, Penny, 119, 132, 145, 146, 174

Crum, H. A., 189

Cumberland Peninsula, 189

D

Dahl, Eilif, 50, 112

Dansereau, Pierre, 182

dating methods. See cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating; radiocarbon dating; tritium dating

Davis, John, 9

Davis Strait, 180

daylight, twenty-four-hour, 101

Decade Glacier, 79, 95, 103, 127, 128, 145

Decade River, 128

Demuth, Mike, 215n9

Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources, 97, 137–38

Department of Transport, 78, 81

Devon Island Ice Cap, 208n9 (chap. 1)

Dewar Lakes. See under DEW Line stations

DEW Line, 1, 8, 11, 21, 51, 78, 91, 95, 152

DEW Line stations: Fox-1 (Rowley Island), 11; Fox-2 (Longstaff Bluff), 11, 21–22, 29, 58, 70–71; Fox-3 (Dewer Lakes), 11, 18, 38, 77; Fox-Main (Hall Beach), 11, 47

Distant Early Warning Line. See DEW Line

Division of Physical Geography, 43

Dominion Observatory Branch gravity survey teams, 35–36, 47

Downdraft Island, 117

Drapier, Lyn, 145, 164–65, 174

Drolet, J.-P., 211n1 (chap. 6)

Dryas integrifolia (mountain avens), 154

Dunbar, Moira, 209n6

Dyke, Art, 187–88, 215n10

E

Eglinton Tower, 10

Ekalugad Camp, 147

Ekalugad Fiord, 91, 128, 135

Ekalugad Moraine, 128, 131

Ekalugad River, 146

Ekalugad sandur, 129–30, 142, 145

Elizabeth (girl from Clyde River), 174

Ellesmere Island, 13, 180

Embacher, Uwe, 44, 47, 210n8

Emery, G., 61–62

England, John: about, 159–60, 172; 1966 fieldwork, 117, 125; 1967 fieldwork, 145; other mentions, 157, 188

Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed), 155

epipetric lichens. See lichens and lichen cover

Eqe Bay, 87–88, 189

erratics, 91, 110, 112, 119, 124, 186–87, 198, 213n5 (chap. 8)

eskers, 106, 109, 205

F

Falconer, George: about, 167; 1962 fieldwork, 49, 51–52; 1963 fieldwork, 61, 63–64, 69; 1965 fieldwork, 87; other mentions, 3, 21, 96, 151, 183, 185, 187, 212n10

federal government, branches of. See individual branches

federal government, departments of. See individual departments

federal government, divisions/sections of. See individual divisions/sections

federal government glaciological research, 1, 209n6

felsenmeer. See mountaintop detritus

Fenno-Scandinavian Ice Sheet, 13, 178, 215n3

Feyling-Hanssen, Rolf, 90, 119, 132, 172, 185

field facilities. See camp structures

Fielding, Tim, 78

Fife, Allan, 189

Fifth Thule Expedition, Danish (1921–1924), 9

firearms, 45

Fish, D. B., 78

Flint, Maurice, 9

Flint, Richard, 12–13, 52, 179–80, 182, 184

Flint Lake, 9, 35

Flitaway Lake, 10, 11, 17, 31, 48–49, 57, 189, 208n6

Flitaway Lake base camp, 22, 29–31, 49, 51, 62, 62–63, 70, 88

Foley Island, 88

food, 38, 68, 208n12, 211n5 (chap. 4)

Fort Chimo, 50–51

fossils, marine, 90, 132, 179, 184–85

fossils, plant, 48, 189

Foxe, Luke, 9

Foxe Basin, 3, 7, 9, 27, 34, 37, 60, 89, 180, 184, 186, 188, 215n2

Foxe Dome, 184

Fraser, Keith, 29, 82, 142

Fremlin, Gerry, 74, 96

Freshney River, 27, 32, 208n5

Frobisher, Martin, 9

Frobisher Bay, 7, 12, 21, 51, 182, 207n4

Froese, Art, 125, 132

frost-shattered debris. See mountaintop detritus

fungi, 148

Fyles, J. G. (John), 13, 180, 213n6 (chap. 7)

G

Gamble, Sam, 45

Gander Aviation, 119

Gaudreau, Pierre, 61, 65–67

Gee Lake, 88

Generator Lake, 10, 125, 126

Geodetic Survey Division, 125, 142

Geografiska Annaler, 210n7

Geographical Branch: location, 21; purpose and survival, 73, 75, 209n2; recruitment of women, 81; reorganization and demise, 2, 74, 138–39, 142; shield, 74, 75, 151, 153, 153. See also van Steenburgh, W. E.

Geographical Bulletin, 74, 82, 96

geography (scientific discipline), 1, 43, 75

Geological Survey of Canada. See GSC

geology (scientific discipline), 75

Geomorphology Section, 43

George River, 13

Gerasimov, Innokentiy, 76–77, 212n6

Gibbs Fiord, 134

Gilbert, Robert, 85

glacial erosion, evidence of, 112, 178, 186, 198

glacial features. See boulders; erratics; ice; ice-dammed lakes; marine terraces; moraines; pseudo-erratics; tors

Glacial Lake Agassiz, 3, 188

Glacial Lake Lewis, 14–15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27, 183, 189

Glacial Lake McLean, 51

Glacial Lake Naskaupi, 51

glacial outwash plains. See sandar

glacier maps/mapping, 12–13, 86, 96, 182, 187

glaciology (scientific discipline), 43, 96, 137, 181

Glaciology Division. See Glaciology Section

Glaciology Section, 5, 43, 97, 181, 207n2 (Introduction), 209n6

Goldthwait, Richard, 12, 89

Goodfellow, Joan, 81

Goodison, Barry, 87, 95, 128, 160–61

Goudreau, Pierre, 62

Grant-Suttie Bay, 32, 89

Gray, Norman, 87, 175

Greenland, 9, 178, 188, 191

Grenier, F., 213n6 (chap. 7)

GSC (Geological Survey of Canada), 12–13, 43, 46, 80, 212n10. See also Harrison, James M.

Gulf of Bothnia, 13, 179, 215nn2–3

H

Hainault, Robert, 87

Hall, Peter, 78

Hall Beach. See under DEW Line stations

Hamelin, Louis-Edmond, 44

Hamilton, Angus, 38

Hantzsch, Bernhard, 9, 182

Harrison, Dave (geographer), 67, 78, 87, 144, 171, 189

Harrison, David (pilot): about, 91, 99; 1965 field season, 89–90, 92; 1966 field season, 99–102, 108, 109, 111, 117, 118, 119; 1967 field season, 127, 132, 142, 144, 148, 151; helicopter flight “lessons,” 92–93, 95

Harrison, James M. (Jim), 43, 74–75, 80, 96, 137–41, 151, 214n3, 214n10. See also GSC

Hattersley-Smith, Geoffrey, 44, 181, 209n6

helicopter support, 80, 86, 100, 142, 186. See also aircraft charters

Henderson, P., 125

Henry Kater Peninsula, 145

Hiatella arctica, 90

Highway Glacier, 10

Hill, Peter, 17, 19, 21, 23, 32–36, 39, 40–41

Hodgson, Doug, 148, 151

Home Bay region, 128, 145, 148

Hoppe, Gunnar, 13, 20, 43, 50, 209nn3–4

Hudson, Henry, 9

Hudson Bay, 3, 180, 186, 188, 215n2

Hultén, Erik, 182

I

ice: movement, 51, 88, 144–45; thickness, 47, 91, 144–45, 179–80, 182, 186; thin ice carapaces, 91, 185–87, 213n5 (chap. 8)

ice cap retreat, 4, 60–61, 64, 79, 179, 184

ice core extraction, 47

ice-dammed lakes, 13, 20, 27, 53, 106, 128, 204, 209n4

Iceland, 50, 178

ice mining operations (Arctic to Ottawa), 48, 52, 54–55, 55, 62, 210n4, 211n4 (chap. 5)

Igloolik, 12, 37

Indian House Lake, 81

Inland Waters Branch, 3, 5, 97, 137, 142

INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research), 2–3, 139, 187, 191, 211n3, 214n6 (chap. 9), 214nn7–8

instantaneous glacierization, 3, 27, 183

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. See INSTAAR

instruments and equipment: Atlas Copco pneumatic drill, 54, 78; Bell and Howell 16mm cine-camera, 79; boats, 78; glaciological/meteorological, 45, 78; Hasselblad 500C camera, 92, 101; ice drill, 31–33; land transport, 125; specialized, 86; Zeiss telescopic level, 24

International Arctic Workshop, 191

International Geographical Congress (1964), 74

International Geographical Union (IGU), 74, 77

International Geophysical Year (IGY), 76, 181

International Hydrological Decade (IHD), 77, 95, 97

Inugsuin Fiord, 10, 80, 98, 105, 112, 149–50

Inugsuin Fiord base camp, 76–78, 84, 87, 88, 100, 102, 119, 143, 145

Inugsuin Pinnacles, 101, 108, 110, 210n8

Inugsuin River, 128

Inuit peoples, 7, 9, 37, 37, 117

Inuit place names. See names/naming of places and features

Inuktorfik Lake, 207n1 (chap. 1)

Iqaluit. See Frobisher Bay

iron ore, 210n2

Irvine, Ron, 148

Isbister, Claude, 137, 139–40

I-sites (on DEW Line), 11

Isortoq Fiord, 11

Isortoq Lake, 11, 32

Isortoq River, 25, 27, 32, 48, 189

Isortoq valley, 15, 28

isostasy, 179

Itirbilung Fiord, 119

Ives, Jack D.: about, 1–2; 1961 reconnaissance, 19–24, 26–40, 39; 1962 fieldwork, 50–52, 54, 56–58; 1963 fieldwork, 64–72; 1965 fieldwork, 90–91; 1966 fieldwork, 100–102, 108, 110, 112, 117, 119, 132; 1967 fieldwork, 142, 148, 151; trips to Europe, 43, 50, 59, 76–77; work with AINA, 20; work with Geographical Branch, 1–2, 21, 40–41, 73–74, 76–77, 80–82, 92, 96, 138–41; work with McGill Lab, 20

Ives, Pauline, 23, 50, 81, 151, 208n6, 212n9

Ives, Tony, 38

J

Jacobs, John, 190

Jacobsen, G., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Jansson, Krister N., 209n4

Jocelyn, Wendy, 87, 95, 212n7

Jonsson, Stig, 85–86

K

Karlén, Wibjörn, 85

Keewatin, 188

Keyhole Glacier, 119, 121–24

Kihl, Rolf, 41, 51, 54, 55–56, 61–63, 65–67

King, Cuchlaine: about, 168, 171; 1965 fieldwork, 87–88, 95, 128; 1967 fieldwork, 145; other mentions, 61, 76, 81, 212n5

King Lake, 63, 65, 66

King River, 48, 52

King River base camp, 48, 49, 62, 65, 88

Koerner, Roy, 181, 183, 209n6

Krüger, Anne-Marie, 81

Kuujjuaq. See Fort Chimo

L

Labradorean Ice Sheet. See Laurentide Ice Sheet

Labrador Sea, 13, 51

Labrador-Ungava fieldwork, 13, 16, 20, 43, 80–81. See also McGill Lab; Torngat Mountains

Labrador-Ungava ice sheet, 13, 51, 188

Lamb, Greg, 36, 38–39

Lamothe, Claude: 1961 reconnaissance, 19, 21, 28–29, 35–36, 39, 40; 1962 fieldwork, 54, 56

Lancaster Sound, 9

Lara, Mark, 190

Laurentide Ice Sheet, 3, 9, 13, 51, 178–80, 186–88

Ledum groenlandicum (Labrador tea), 189

Levesque, Robbie, 29–35, 39–40

Lewis, Peter, 87, 125

Lewis, Vaughan, 24, 207n6

Lewis Glacier, 11, 31, 31, 61, 189, 191

Lewis River, 11, 61–62, 65, 95, 189

Lewis River camp (1964), 78

Lewis River camp (1965), 87

“lichen-free” areas, 60, 64, 211n2 (chap. 5)

lichenometry, 4, 60, 79, 188–89, 211n1 (chap. 5). See also Beschel, Roland; Webber, P. J.

lichens and lichen cover, 24, 26, 26, 27, 59–60, 64, 183, 188–89. See also individual species

Life magazine, 125, 132

light- and dark-toned areas, 13, 20, 24, 27, 182. See also lichens and lichen cover

Little Ice Age, 3, 183

Lloyd, T., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Logie, Jean, 119, 174

Løken, Inger Marie, 81

Løken, Olav: about, 168–69, 171; 1964 fieldwork, 76–79; 1965 fieldwork, 86–91; 1966 fieldwork, 119, 125, 135; 1967 fieldwork, 142, 144; other mentions, 5, 50, 96, 182, 184–86, 191

Longstaff, Tom, 133

Longstaff Bluff, 9, 11. See also under DEW Line stations

LORAN (long range navigation) sites, 11, 100

M

MacHattie, C., 89–90

Mackay, Ross, 44, 50, 96, 139, 213n6 (chap. 7)

Maktak Fiord, 10

Manning, Tom, 12, 182

maps and mapping. See Atlas of Canada; glacier maps/mapping; submarine topography/mapping; Surveys and Mapping Branch; topographic maps/mapping

Marchant, P., 213n6 (chap. 7)

marine limits. See sea levels, former

marine terraces, 12, 179, 182, 215n4

Marmet, Jürg, 10

Marsden, Mike, 81

Mary River base camp, 61, 62, 63

mass balance studies, 47–48, 88, 95, 125, 144–45

mass balance transect, Western Canada, 4, 85, 185

Mathiassen, Therkel, 182

Mattox, Bill, 50

Mattox, Joan, 50

The Maw, 117

McBeth Fiord, 119, 148

McCracken, Mary, 42–43

McEwen, Dave, 29, 39

McGill-Carnegie-Arctic Research Program, 207n1 (Introduction)

McGill Lab, 2, 20, 44, 208n3, 215n3. See also Labrador-Ungava fieldwork

McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory. See McGill Lab

McLaren, Patrick, 145

mega-fossils. See fossils, marine

Meier, Mark, 86

Melville Peninsula, 182, 187

Mercer, John, 12, 182

Meteorological Branch, 45

meteorological stations, 95, 125

micro-fossils. See fossils, marine

Mid-Canada Line, 11

Miller, Gifford, 185, 188, 191, 215n10

Millest, Mary. See Strom, Mary

mollusc shells. See fossils, marine

moraines: cross-valley moraines, 14–15, 27, 28, 48, 60; end moraines, 12–13, 52, 54, 101, 103–4, 106, 202; ice-cored moraines, 43, 52, 54, 62; lateral moraines, 112, 132, 135, 186, 202; medial moraines, 201–2; moraine systems, 17, 20, 32, 187. See also Cockburn Moraines; Ekalugad Moraine

Moroz, G., 87

Morse, John, 78–79

mosses, 64, 148, 183, 189

mountaintop detritus, 110, 112, 113–14, 120, 178–79, 186

Mount Asgard, 10

Mount Battle, 10

Mount Cook, 102

Mount Fleming, 10

Mount Longstaff, 133

Müller, Fritz, 58, 77, 181

Murray, Lil, 73

Murray, Tom, 89, 101, 117, 142

Mya truncata, 90

N

names/naming of places and features, 5, 9–11, 81–82, 207n4–207n5, 212n9, 212n11. See also Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

National Advisory Committee for Geological Research, 43

National Advisory Committee on Geographical Research, 74, 96, 137–38, 140, 213n6 (chap. 7)

National Air Photo Library, 21, 85

National Atlas program, 74, 96

National Film Board (NFB), 212n3

National Museum of Natural Sciences, 189

Nicholson, Norman, 2, 21, 40, 44–45, 73–74, 182. See also Geographical Branch

nomenclature. See names/naming of places and features

North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), 11

North Atlantic Drift, 7

Northern Wings, 50, 56, 61

Norway, 7, 91, 185–86. See also Scandinavian hypotheses

Nuksuklorolu Mountain. See Inugsuin Pinnacles

Nuluujaak Mountain, 210n2

nunatak (term), 214n1 (chap. 11)

nunatak hypothesis, 112–13, 178, 185, 214n1 (chap. 11)

O

Odell, Noel, 178–79

Ommanney, C. S. L., 185

ookpiks, 148, 214n9

ordination analysis, 190

Orvig, Svenn, 58

O’Shaughnessy, Jim, 142

Østrem, Britta, 54, 209n5

Østrem, Gunnar: about, 169–70; recruitment to Geographic Branch, 43, 45; 1962 fieldwork, 50–52, 54–55, 55–56; 1963 fieldwork, 60–63; 1965 fieldwork, 86–87, 95; other mentions, 4, 58, 77–78, 85, 96, 125, 185, 209n5, 211n5 (chap. 4)

P

Pacific Coast Ranges. See Coast Ranges

Padloping Island, 135

Pan-American Institute of Geography and History, 74

Pangnirtung, 10

Papaver labradoricum (Iceland poppy), 154

Parmelee, J. A., 148

Parry, W. E., 207n3

Pedicularis sudetica (Sudeten lousewort), 155

Penny, William, 9

Penny Highlands, 186

Penny Ice Cap, 9–10, 12, 208n9 (chap. 1)

Pépin, Jean-Luc, 140–41

Perfection Pass, 101, 104

permafrost, 181

Perraton, D. J., 78

Peterson, Jim, 78

Peyto Glacier, 4, 86, 185

Phillips, Bill, 148

Phillipson, Arthur, 214n7 (chap. 8)

Philpot, Jane, 87, 95, 119, 128, 132, 166–67, 173

photography: excursions by Ives, 93, 101–2, 108, 112; RCAF air photography, 9, 45, 182, 210n10. See also air photo interpretation; instruments and equipment; Life magazine

piedmont glaciers, 203

Pilik Lake, 49, 49, 52

Piling Bay, 9, 12, 39

Piling Lake, 88

Pimlott, Doug, 125

Pinetree Line, 11

Pintail Glacier, 189

Place Glacier, 4, 86, 185

place names. See names/naming of places and features

plants and vegetation, 3–4, 79–80, 190. See also arctic-alpine plant species; fungi; lichens and lichen cover; mosses; vascular plants; individual species

Pleistocene Geology Section, GSC, 74

Pleistocene Period, 180

Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP), 181, 209n6

Polunin, Nicholas, 182

Pond, Peter, 9

Pond Inlet, 9

Porsild, Erling, 59, 182, 189

postglacial rebound, 179

Prince, Al, 97

Prince Charles Island, 9

Pseudephebe (Alectoria) miniscula, 188. See also lichens and lichen cover

pseudo-erratics, 196

Puccinella andersonii, 79

Puxley, Peter, 132

Pyrola grandiflora (Arctic wintergreen), 155

Pytte, Randi, 85

Q

Queen’s University, 3–4

R

radiocarbon dating, 38, 54, 90, 179, 185, 187, 189, 211n4 (chap. 4), 212n2

radio communications, 21, 23, 32, 78, 117, 208n13

Ram Glacier, 86

Rannie, Bill: about, 161–62, 173; 1963 fieldwork, 61–62, 65; 1963 “rescue,” 69–72; 1964 fieldwork, 78–79; 1965 fieldwork, 95; 1966 fieldwork, 128

Rannoch Arm, 9

RCAF 408 (Photo) Lancaster Squadron, 45

recruitment of field researchers, 2, 41–45, 85

Reimer, Derek, 125, 132

“relative salt dilution” method, 62

Remote Lake, 133–34, 186

Rhizocarpon geographicum, 24, 26, 59, 188. See also lichens and lichen cover

Riccaboni, Lou, 21, 23, 32–33, 35–36, 39, 208n13

Richardson, Hilda, 77

Richardson, John, 148

Rimrock Lake, 10, 11, 19, 21, 25, 64, 64, 208n5

Rimrock Lake base camp, 14, 17, 22, 23–24, 38

River Freshney, 11

River Isortoq, 11

Robitaille, Benoit, 21

rock lichens. See lichens and lichen cover

Rocky Mountains, 77, 85–86, 180, 185

Roots, Fred, 209n6

Ross, Frank, 19, 21–23

Röthlisberger, Hans, 10

Rowley, Graham, 9

Rowley Island, 9. See also under DEW Line stations

Rowley River, 9, 17, 32, 34, 37

Royal Society Fiord, 9

Ryder, June, 119, 128, 145, 146, 162, 173, 212n7

S

Sagar, Brian: about, 170; recruitment to Baffin team, 44–45; 1962 fieldwork, 45, 47–48, 52; 1963 fieldwork, 61–62, 65; 1964 fieldwork, 76–78; 1965 fieldwork, 87–88; 1966 fieldwork, 125; other mentions, 96, 184

Salix arctica (Arctic willow), 155

Salix Richardsonii (Erect willow), 191

Sam Ford Fiord, 10, 12, 79, 135

sandar, 106, 128, 202. See also Ekalugad sandur

Sanderson, Marie, 44

Sangamon Interglacial, 189

Sanirajak. See Hall Beach

Scandinavian hypotheses on ice age history, 112, 178–79

Schefferville, 20, 50

Schwarzenbach, Fritz, 10, 182

Schytt, Valter, 43

Scott Inlet, 9, 132, 148

sea cliffs, 90, 185. See also Clyde Foreland

sea levels, former, 12, 36, 79, 90, 145, 179, 182, 208n10 (chap. 2), 215nn2–3

seashells. See fossils, marine

Sedgewick, Kent, 61, 63, 69, 85

Sentinel Glacier, 86

Separation Lake, 11, 32–33, 208n8

Separation Lake base camp, 22, 33

Serripes groenlandicus, 90

Shadow Mountain, 119, 120, 214n7 (chap. 8)

Sheardown, Ron, 49, 63, 210n2

Shenstone, Doug, 82

Sim, Vic: about, 17; 1961 reconnaissance, 19, 21–22, 28–29, 31–32, 35–36, 39, 40

Simpson, Ken, 119, 125

Smith, Ed, 78, 90, 212n7

Smith, Wendy. See Jocelyn, Wendy

Smithson, Bruce, 48, 51–52, 54, 56, 78, 189

Sons of the Clergy Islands, 82, 212n11

Sookocheff, Tim, 125, 127, 145

Soper, Dewey, 9, 182

Southern, R. M., 20, 208n2

Spartan Air Services, 89, 91–92, 142

Spruyt, Tijs Bellaar, 85

Stamp, Dudley, 76

Stanley, Alan, 145

Steensby Inlet, 12–13, 17, 34–35, 37, 89

St. Lawrence Seaway, 209n1

Stockholm University, 43

strandlines, 182, 215n3

Striding River, 11, 32

Strom, Mary, 145, 174

student recruitment. See recruitment of field researchers; women and fieldwork

submarine topography/mapping, 132, 135, 142, 148, 191

Surveys and Mapping Branch, 45, 81–82, 142, 153

Sutherland, Murray, 45

Sutherland, Patricia, 207n2 (chap. 1)

Svalbard, 178

Sweden, 12, 209n3. See also Scandinavian hypotheses

Szabo, Michael, 96

T

talus slopes, 90

Tay Sound, 52

Thomas, M. K., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Thompson, Brian, 54, 56

Thompson, Hugh, 19, 208n1

Tiger Ice Cap, 183

topographic maps/mapping, 45, 85–86, 100, 128, 142, 145, 208n4, 210n11. See also submarine topography/mapping

Tor Mountain, 112

Torngat Mountains, 13, 51, 76, 112, 178–79, 215n3, 215n5. See also Labrador-Ungava fieldwork; McGill Lab

tors, 112, 115, 115–16, 120, 186–87

tritium dating, 88

Trnavskis, B., 78

Troll, Carl, 76–77

Turner, J. H., 9

Turner Glacier, 9

Tweedsmuir Islands, 88–89

Tyrell, Joseph, 184

U

Umbilicaria Lake, 52–54, 56, 60

Ungava Bay, 50–51, 209n4

US Strategic Air Command (SAC), 51

V

Vaccinium uliginosum (Blueberry), 191

Vanier, Pauline, 212n9

van Steenburgh, W. E.: about, 208n10 (chap. 1); dealings with Ives, 43, 73–74, 97, 138; support of Baffin research, 16, 40–41, 60; other mentions, 137, 140, 151. See also Geographical Branch

vascular plants, 91, 128, 154–55, 182, 185, 189, 213n5 (chap. 8)

Vikings, 9, 207n2 (chap. 1)

Villarreal, Sandra, 190

W

Walker Arm, 10, 79

Walter, K. W., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Washburn, A. Lincoln, 139

Waters Research Branch, 119, 135

Watson, Adam, 182

Watts, Murray, 49, 61, 210n2, 213n4 (chap. 7)

Wayman, Stan, 125, 132

weather events and features: black frost, 211n5 (chap. 5); cloud, 93, 94, 213n5 (chap. 7); fog, 100, 117, 149–50; snow, 48; winds, 20, 70, 101, 213n1

weathering pits, 197

weathering zones, 187

Webber, P. J. (Pat): about, 162–63; recruitment to Baffin team, 60; 1963 fieldwork, 61, 64, 64, 65, 69, 188; 1964 fieldwork, 78–79; 1966 fieldwork, 128; 1967 fieldwork, 148; collections of plants, 189; other mentions, 3, 177, 190–91, 211n3

Weber, Hans (Housi), 10, 45–47, 184, 210n1

Weber, Richard, 210n1

Weir, T., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Wheeler Airlines, 61

wildlife: Arctic hare, 38, 208n11; caribou, 48; grey wolf, 125, 132

Wilson, Tuzo, 43, 181, 187

Windless Lake, 11, 37

Windless Lake base camp, 22, 36, 38

women and fieldwork, 44, 60–61, 80–81, 212n7

Wonders, W. C., 213n6 (chap. 7)

Woodsia alpina, 79

Woolsey Glacier, 86

Wordie, James, 182, 215n4

Wordie Expedition. See Cambridge University Expedition (1937)

Wynne-Edwards, V. C., 182

Z

Zaborski, Bogdan, 42

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