An island located between Greenland and Canadian Arctic islands.

The preferred term in Canada's Central Arctic is Inuinnaq, and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit.

The Inuvialuit live in the western Canadian Arctic region.

Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.

Iqaluit's precipitation averages just over annually, much wetter than many other localities in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, with the summer being the wettest season.

They are reported as seasonally common in the Canadian Arctic, including Baffin Bay between Greenland and Nunavut, and around Tasmania and Macquarie Island.

* TMS-SD provides public outreach events to classrooms, libraries, museums and other organizations throughout the Southern California region with seven different multimedia programs: " Invasion from Earth-The Robotic Exploration of Mars "; " Mars Exploration Rovers-Year 4 "; " Mars on Earth-The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the Utah Desert "; " Mars on Earth-The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the Canadian Arctic: " Humans to Mars-How We'll Get There "; " A Close Look at Mars "; and " Mars in the Movies "

* Moor Island, one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic.

* McGrath, Melanie ( 2006 ) The Long Exile, A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, Harper-Collins

Territorial islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago include Banks Island, Borden Island, Prince Patrick Island, and parts of Victoria Island and Melville Island.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages or Northwestern Passages.

From west to east the Northwest Passage runs through the Bering Strait ( separating Russia and Alaska ), Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and then through several waterways that go through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on 17 August 1905, but had to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on the Alaska District's Pacific coast.

* The Canadian Coast Guard named an icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, whose mission is to perform scientific research in the waters of the Arctic

* Arctic and Taiga Canadian Geographic

The much smaller population of Atlantic walruses ranges from the Canadian Arctic, across Greenland, Svalbard, and the western part of Arctic Russia.

This Act also allowed the Canadian parliament and the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec to redraw the boundaries of the Province of Ontario and the Province of Quebec in order to include parts of these land acquisitions, specifically in northern ( Arctic ) Canada around Hudson Bay.

Canadian author Ken McGoogan, a specialist on Arctic exploration, states that Rae's willingness to learn and adopt the ways of indigenous Arctic peoples made him stand out as the foremost specialist of his time in cold-climate survival and travel.

One of Roald Amundsen's men, Godfred Hansen, charted its east coast as far as Cape Nansen in 1905, and in 1916 and 1917 Storker T. Storkerson, of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, charted its northeast coast, discovering the Storkerson Peninsula.

NASA has announced that Hadfield will become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, leading Expedition 35, when he blasts off in December 2012.

* Erebus and Terror were the two ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, which in 1845 sought a Northwest passage through the Canadian arctic.

It is the third oldest city west of the Mississippi, founded in 1765 as Les Petites Côtes, " The Little Hills ", by Louis Blanchette, a French Canadian fur trader, and was the last " civilized " stop for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804.

Now known as the Wolseley Expedition ( or Red River Expedition ), it consisted of Canadian militia and British regular soldiers led by Colonel Garnet Wolseley.

Long after the Lewis & Clark Expedition and also after the consolidation of the fur trade in the region by the Canadian fur companies, American " Mountain Men " such as Jedediah Smith and Jim Beckwourth came roaming into and across the Rocky Mountains, following Indian trails through the Rockies to California and Oregon.

The legend of the Kicking Horse is now firmly established in popular Canadian history however, as politely noted by the Palliser scholar, Irene Spry, it " embodies Hector's not always accurate reminiscences about the Expedition.

The 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition ( sponsored by Air Canada ) had taken five years to plan, $ 3 million to finance and required 27 tons of equipment to outfit the party.

The river has been depicted by many prominent Canadian artists such as William Armstrong ( 1822 – 1914 ), Frances Anne Hopkins ( The Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls, 1877 ) and Lucius Richard O ' Brien ( Kakabeka Falls, 1882 ).

* June-Start of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 – 1916 a scientific expedition in the Arcitc Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

At the colonial office he had great influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connection with equipment of the Palliser Expedition in Canada ( for his efforts, the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies was named after him ), and with William Jackson Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras.

* The Intrepid Canadian Expedition ( 2010 )-author Sara Pennypacker

The Expedition 2 crew installed and conducted tests on the Canadian made Space Station Robotic arm ( SSRMS ), conducted internal and external maintenance tasks ( Russian and American ), in addition to medical and science experiments.

In 1870, he successfully commanded the Red River Expedition to establish Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest Territories and Manitoba.

Stefansson organized and directed the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916 to explore the regions west of Parry Archipelago for the Government of Canada.

The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1916 ; McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2004.

The last voyage of HMCS Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition,

The Canadian Arctic Expedition was organised under the leadership of Canadian-born anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and had both scientific and geographic objectives.

Stefansson escaped official censure and was publicly honoured for his later work on the Canadian Arctic Expedition, despite the Canadian government's reservations about the expedition's overall management.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, leader of the Canadian Arctic Expedition

" William Bolts and the Austrian Origins of the Lapérouse Expedition ", Terrae Incognitae, vol. 40, 2008, pp. 1 – 28 ; presented at the Canadian Nautical Research Society Conference, Churchill, Manitoba, 2 – 7 August 2007.

He took part in the Second Opium War and was promoted to captain before taking part in the Canadian Red River Expedition of 1870.