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Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...
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Inuit
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Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It is also released as Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, which translates the title. Atanarjuat was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut, the language of Canada's Inuit people. Igloolik is a c...
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Sedna
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The object designated 2003 VB12 was discovered with the Palomar 1.2-m Schmidt telescope on November 14, 2003 and has also been found on sky photographs taken in 2001 and 2002. Orbit computations show that the object's distance from the Sun varies between 76 and about 900 Astronomical Units. Its cur...
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Cape York meteorite
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The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world. The iron masses were known to Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weigh...
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Inuksuk
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An inuksuk (plural inuksuit) is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America. Read more Anyway, that funny-looking, multicoloured thing th...
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