Assessing the shorefast ice: Iñupiat whaling trails off barrow, Alaska

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 203-228

  Druckenmiller, Matthew L ^a   Eicken, Hajo ^a   George, John C ^a   Brower, Lewis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Barrow Arctic Science Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Barrow; I upiat; Local knowledge; Shorefast sea ice; Whaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863657361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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