Physical and chemical limnology of a 61-lake transect across mainland Nunavut and southeastern Victoria Island, Central Canadian Arctic

2009 ◽  
Vol 175 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlyn S. Westover ◽  
Katrina A. Moser ◽  
David F. Porinchu ◽  
Glen M. MacDonald ◽  
Xiaowa Wang
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Victoria Island ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Holocene History of the Bering Sea Bowhead Whale (Balaena Mysticetus) in Its Beaufort Sea Summer Grounds off Southwestern Victoria Island, Western Canadian Arctic

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Dyke ◽  
James M. Savelle
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Bowhead Whale ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
Range Limit ◽  
Summer Range ◽  
Victoria Island ◽  
The Bering Sea

AbstractThe fossil remains of 43 bowhead whales were mapped on the raised beaches of western Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic, near the historic summer range limit of the Bering Sea stock in the Beaufort Sea. The elevations and radiocarbon ages of the remains demonstrate that the bowhead ranged commonly into the region following the submergence of Bering Strait at ca. 10,000 14C yr B.P. until ca. 8500 14C yr B.P. During the same interval, bowheads ranged widely from the Beaufort Sea to Baffin Bay. Subsequently, no whales reached Wollaston Peninsula until ca. 1500 14C yr B.P. Late Holocene populations evidently were small, or occupations were brief, in comparison to those of the early Holocene. Although the late Holocene recurrence may relate to the expansion of pioneering Thule whalers eastward from Alaska, there are few Thule sites and limited evidence of Thule whaling in the area surveyed to support this suggestion.

Holocene Driftwood Incursion to Southwestern Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and Its Significance to Paleoceanography and Archaeology

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Dyke ◽  
James M. Savelle
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽  
Fuel Resource ◽  
Victoria Island ◽  
Raised Beaches

Holocene driftwood is found on postglacial raised beaches of Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island. The highest driftwood appears on the 12- to 13-m beach, which formed about 4000 yr B.P., and is common on beaches 12–6 m in elevation. The earliest Paleoeskimo dwelling features also occur on the 12- to 13-m beach. Wood increases on the 5- to 6-m beach, which formed about 2000 yr B.P., and is abundant below that level. Thus, zonation of wood suggests the following hypotheses: (1) that the coastal Mackenzie Current, the source of modern driftwood, did not operate before 4000 yr B.P. and lacked its present vigor or persistence until 2000 yr B.P.; and (2) that the apparent sudden influx of driftwood at 4000 yr B.P. may have provided a fuel resource and (or) may have been related to conditions that enabled first peopling. Radiocarbon ages indicate that (1) the first wood arrived about 4700 yr B.P.; (2) little wood arrived from 4700–2000 yr B.P.; and (3) influx of wood was episodic after 2000 yr B.P. Much of the wood that arrived after 1100 yr B.P. was redistributed by people and scattered on higher beaches. Explanation of the evident correlation between highest wood and highest dwelling features must await archaeological studies.

Initiation and early evolution of the Franklin magmatic event preserved in the 720 Ma Natkusiak Formation, Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. B. Williamson ◽  
Luke Ootes ◽  
Robert H. Rainbird ◽  
Jean H. Bédard ◽  
Brian Cousens
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Early Evolution ◽  
Victoria Island ◽  
Magmatic Event

scholarly journals An enigmatic group of arctic island caribou and the potential implications for conservation of biodiversity

Rangifer ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri McFarlane ◽  
Frank L. Miller ◽  
Samuel J. Barry ◽  
Gregory A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Rangifer Tarandus ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽  
Scale Level ◽  
Geographic Population ◽  
Dna Analyses ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Status ◽  
Victoria Island

We investigated the status of caribou classified as Rangifer tarandus pearyi by DNA analyses, with an emphasis on those large-bodied caribou identified as ultra pearyi that were collected in summer 1958 on Prince of Wales Island, south-central Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Our comparative assessment reveals that the ultra pearyi from Prince of Wales Island belong to a group of pearyi and are not hybrids of pearyi x groenlandicus, as we found for the caribou occurring on nearby Banks Island and northwest Victoria Island. The ultra pearyi from Prince of Wales Island cluster with high arctic pearyi and are separated genetically from the caribou populations that we sampled on the low Canadian Arctic Islands and the Canadian mainland. Our findings reveal biodiversity below the level of subspecies or regional designations. These results support the position that to retain the biodiversity present among caribou populations on the Canadian Arctic Islands, conservation efforts should be targeted at the smaller scale level of the geographic population, rather than on a wider regional or subspecific range-wide basis.

Major end moraines of Younger Dryas age on Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic: implications for paleoclimate and for formation of hummocky moraine

2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S Dyke ◽  
James M Savelle
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Water Depth ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Glacier Mass Balance ◽  
Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽  
Climatic Control ◽  
Glacier Ice ◽  
Victoria Island

Some of the most extensive and massive end moraines of Younger Dryas age (11–10 14C ka BP) yet recognized in North America occur on Wollaston Peninsula of Victoria Island. On the western part of the peninsula, numerous closely spaced end moraines formed in the interval starting 11 100 ± 100 radiocarbon years ago and ending about 10 500–10 200 years ago. Net recession was generally slow throughout and was punctuated by moraine-building and at least two readvances. Recession is mapped with a resolution that is approximately decadal. The moraines form an orderly, nested succession and are consistently associated with westward shedding of meltwater, which formed a sequence of marine-limit deltas. We lack firm, independent proxy-climate evidence needed to assess whether these moraines formed because of cold Younger Dryas climate, rather than because of controls such as topographic setting and water depth, but climatic control seems probable. The moraines evidently retain glacier ice cores, as do most similarly large moraines in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northern mainland. They formed along active ice margins when the glacier mass balance on average was only slightly negative. Future melting of ice cores would produce regional hummocky moraine and much basal meltout till more than 10 000 years after deglaciation. Some southern areas of hummocky moraine may have originated as ice-cored moraines formed by active ice margins rather than from extensive regional stagnation.

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