Web Directory

» Arctic Blue Books
   Searchable version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the British Parliamentary Papers relating to Canadian Arctic exploration between 1818-1878.
   http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/subject/arcticstudies/arcticbb/

» Arctic Exploration Discovery History Books
   Books on CD-ROM by the CD-Academia Book Company. Images, illustrations and timelines of the XIXth Century expeditions to the Arctic.
   http://www.cd-books.com/

» Arctic Exploration and the Search for the Northwest Passage in the First Half of the Nineteenth Cent
   This bibliography provides researchers at Library and Archives Canada with a listing of primary printed sources for the study of the search for the Northwest Passage in the early nineteenth century.
   http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/arctic_exploration-ef/2/21/index-e.html

» Arctic History
   Includes information about the Paleo-Eskimos, the Dorset period, and the Thule culture.
   http://www.travelvantage.com/arc_his.html

» Gates of the Arctic - History
   Short history of the origins of Arctic's the major anthropological groups such as the Inuit, Aleuts, Athabascans, and Northwest Coast Indians.
   http://www.goals.com/thayer/gota/history/historybody.htm

» Inuit and Englishmen : The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
   History of the Arctic expedition of Englishman Martin Frobisher, the first contacts between Inuit and Europeans, the search for a Northwest Passage, the first mining venture in Canada, and the earliest English efforts to establish a colony in North Americ
   http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/frobisher/frint01e.shtml

» New Bedford Whaling Museum
   Short article on the history of arctic whaling.
   http://www.whalingmuseum.org/library/amwhale/am_arctic.html

» Prehistory of Alaska
   History of the people, wildlife, and land of the Tundra, Arctic, coastal, and interior regions of Alaska from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the topic.
   http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/index.htm

» Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center
   History, oral traditions, archaeological research, and vignettes of life and society of the peoples of the Canadian Arctic. Includes searchable database of photos, sounds, place names, and documents.
   http://www.pwnhc.ca/

» Sir John Franklin
   Extensive resources on Franklin, his ill-fated last expedition, and the cultural history of exploration.
   http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/SJFranklin.html

» The Big Sickness in Arctic Alaska - 1918
   Article on Arctic colonization and the introduction of new diseases such as measles, smallpox, and influenza in the early 1900s.
   http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Sickness/sickness.html

» The Northern Lights Route
   The dispersion of European culture from the Norwegian coast to the Barents Sea and the Baltic.
   http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/

» The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
   A museum on Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary and Donald B. MacMillan. Includes collections on polar exploration gear, natural history specimens, and artifacts and drawings made by Inuit and Indians of North America.
   http://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/arctic-studies/