ISBN:
1552387208
,
9781552387207
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 491 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
Series Statement:
Northern lights series 17
Series Statement:
Northern lights series
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
971.9
Keywords:
Geschichte 1870-1939
;
Souveränität
;
Canada, Northern International status
;
History
;
Arctic regions International status
;
History
;
Kanada
;
Kanada Nord
;
Souveränität
;
Geschichte 1870-1939
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Territorial sovereignty before 1870The transfers of arctic territories from Great Britain to Canada, 1870-80 -- Period of relative inactivity and unconcern, 1880-95 -- Organization and administration of the NWT, 1895-1918 -- Whaling and the Yukon gold rush -- The Alaska boundary dispute -- Foreign explorers in the Canadian North, 1877-1917 -- Canadian government expeditions to northern waters, 1897-1918 -- The sector principle and the background of Canada's sector claim -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his plans for northern enterprise after the first World War -- Danish sovereignty, Greenland, and the Ellesmere Island affair of 1919-21 -- The Wrangel Island affair of the early 1920s -- The question of sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands, 1925-30 -- The Eastern Greenland case and its implications for the Canadian North -- American explorers in the Canadian Arctic and related matters, 1918-39 -- The Eastern Arctic Patrol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other government activities, 1922-39 -- Epilogue: Henry Larsen, the St. Roch, and the Northwest Passage Voyage of 1940-42.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index
,
Issued also in electronic format.
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