Unveiling the Arctic

Claudette Reed Upton; Marvin Falk

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Unveiling the Arctic

Authors:

Claudette Reed Upton

and

Marvin Falk

Editor:

Louis Rey

Copyright Year:: 1984

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Publisher:: Brill

Language:: English

Pages:: vii, pp. 321-613

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004632073

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- Biology
  - Biology & Environmental Sciences

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Unveiling the Arctic

Preliminary Material

International

List of Contributors

List of Maps

The Importance of the Role of History and Classical Studies in the Moulding of Man

His Eminence Gabriel-Marie Cardinal Garrone

The Evangelization of the Arctic in the Middle Ages: Gardar, the “Diocese of Ice”

Cosmology and Cartography

The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus

Geographical Perceptions of the North in Pomponius Mela and Ptolemy

Surviving Sources of the Classical Geographers Through Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period

The Paleohistory of Circumpolar Arctic Colonization

The Saami Peoples from the Time of the Voyage of Ottar to Thomas von Westen

The Participation of the Kings in the Early Norwegian Sailing to Bjarmeland (Kola Peninsula and Russian Waters), and the Development of a Royal Policy Concerning the Northern Waters in the Middle Ages

Some Landmarks in Icelandic Cartography down to the End of the Sixteenth Century

“A very interesting point in geography”: The 1773 Phipps Expedition towards the North Pole

In Search of a Sea Route to Siberia, 1553-1619

The Discovery of the Koryaks and Their Perception of the World

The Route to China: Northern Europe’s Arctic Delusions

England’s Search for the Northern Passages in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Dutch Activities in the North and the Arctic during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Mare Clausuni et Mare Liberum

Development and Achievements of Dutch Northern and Arctic Cartography in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Basque Whaling Establishments in Labrador 1536-1632 — A Summary

The Role of the Basque, Breton and Norman Cod Fishermen in the Discovery of North America from the XVIth to the End of the XVIIIth Century

From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America’s Western Arctic

The Whalers of Honfleur in the Seventeenth Century

The Hanseatic League and Hanse Towns in the Early Penetration of the North

French Naval Operations in Spitsbergen During Louis XIV’s Reign

Cartographical Representation of the Scandinavian Arctic Regions

Images of Pre-Discovery Alaska in the Work of European Cartographers

The Early Cartography of the Bering Strait Region

Exploration and Evangelization of the Great Canadian North: Vikings, Coureurs des Bois, and Missionaries

Index — Place Names

Index — Family Names

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