The Northern Lights in Yellowknife, CanadaCanada includes the world’s largest uninhabited island In the high Arctic lies Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world. Its desolate, rugged terrain makes it an ideal location for studying Mars-like conditions, but it also showcases Cana...
Yellowknife, city and capital (since 1967) of Northwest Territories, northwestern Canada. It lies on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 5 miles (8 km) south of the mouth of the Yellowknife River. It was founded in 1935, one year after gold was discover
Canada has about 350,000 official place names. These include names of populated places, water bodies (e.g. lakes) and geographical features (e.g. mountains). Many geographical features are still unnamed, at least officially. Canadian place names have a variety of origins, including Aboriginal l...
But if you go straight to Yellowknife, just south of the Arctic Circle, you may increase your chances a bit. (It's nicknamed the Aurora Capital of North America for a reason." The town of Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories offers you a chance to see the Northern Lights swirl....
Oil rig, Northwest Territories, Canada.(more) Mining has been the principal nonrenewable resource industry of the territories. Gold has been mined at Yellowknife on the north shore of Great Slave Lake since the late 1930s. Radioactive ores were mined at Port Radium onGreat Bear Lakein the ...
We just updated this entry with a paragraph about Chaga and radioactivity – might be interesting for you since you live in the Saskatchewan area in Canada, which has been contaminated significantly by fallout from the Fukushima disaster. Using raw Chaga or other mushrooms from that area might no...
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Yellowknife Group (Show more) See all related content Archean Eon, the earlier of the two formal divisions ofPrecambrian time(about 4.6 billion to 541 million years ago) and the period when life first formed onEarth. The ArcheanEonbegan about 4 billion years ago with the formation of Earth’...
Yellowknife Group Vishnu Schist Keewatin Series Late Archean Era See all related content Archean Eon, the earlier of the two formal divisions ofPrecambrian time(about 4.6 billion to 541 million years ago) and the period when life first formed onEarth. The ArcheanEonbegan about 4 billion years ag...
Edmonton is located on theNorth Saskatchewan River, near the center of the province of Alberta. You can see more about the city in these maps ofEdmonton. It is the northernmost large city in Canada and, therefore, the northernmost city in North America. Area Read More Yellowknife: Capital of...