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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"northwest passage"”.
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
… concerning the use of 3-D visualizations in the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway’s (NWPSB) Viewshed Protection and Visualization project. This project, which was conducted by the NWPSB Commission and Advisory Team, provided the perfect opportunity to study the use of several 3-D visualizations …
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
… concerning the use of 3-D visualizations in the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway’s (NWPSB) Viewshed Protection and Visualization project. This project, which was conducted by the NWPSB Commission and Advisory Team, provided the perfect opportunity to study the use of several 3-D visualizations …
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Increased Shipping Activity and Marine Mammals in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait: Developing a Low-Impact Shipping Corridor.
… this increased vessel traffic as part of the Northwest Passage. Managing these worsening impacts is of the utmost importance to preserve the sensitive ecosystem of the Canadian Arctic. This thesis explores how increasing vessel traffic trends are overlapping with cetacean distributions and …
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Competition and Conflict: Maryland's First Ten Years
… of gold or silver and the hopes of finding a Northwest Passage proved fruitless as well. For over ten years British holdings in the New World showed little sign of producing profits. It was not until 1614, and the introduction of tobacco, that Virginians finally discovered a commodity that …
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The Strait Defense: A Case Study Comparison of Global Straits
… increased nautical transportation through the Northwest Passage, the United States needs to revisit its security posture in and around the Bering Strait. At least five different grand strategies are potentially relevant in addressing this question. By comparing the suggestions of these leading …
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An Evaluation of British Royal Naval Arctic Exploration Techniques: 1818-1876
… was centred, and in the discovery of three Northwest Passages. But this was at considerable effort and a very high monetary cost. J. Rae, J. Richardson, and R. King in the 184Os and '50s, and more recently V. Stefansson (1939) and H.N. Wallace (1980), have put forward the view that the navy …
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Nomads of light : a housing paradigm for the North
… due to oil exploitation and recently opened Northwest Passage. Will the North be overwhelmed with South way of thinking through globalization? What is the proper housing paradigm for life in the North? A nomadic lifestyle and light are the most important two factors for life in the North. Not …
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Arctic Circles: the Franklin family, networks of knowledge, and early nineteenth century Arctic exploration, 1818-1859
… after he disappeared in an attempt to chart the Northwest Passage in 1845. At each stage, the Franklin women actively engaged with (and derived connections, strategies and information from) dynamic networks of imperial knowledge across a series of colonial, metropolitan and extra-imperial sites. …
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A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America
In August 1576 five men serving the Elizabethan explorer Martin Frobisher disappeared following an Inuk guide at Baffin Island. Over the next two years the English tried various methods of communication with the Inuit – including miming, drawing, writing and kidnapping “interpreters” – but were …