With the publication of this volume of Circumpolar Studies, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen and the contributors would like to honour Ko de Korte.
In 1999, Nunavut Territory was created in the Canadian Arctic. The area is about 50 times as large as the Netherlands, and is inhabited by a population of 30,000. 85% of the population is Inuit, the indigenous people in this area. The central questions in this research project are what place or regional identities are being ascribed to Nunavut by different groups of people from within and from outside the region, and how do these identities work?
The central questions of this research are the following: What was the Antarctic policy of the Netherlands from the late 1950s until 1990? What were its motives, goals, means and effects? What were the roles of the government, the scientific community, non-governmental organisations and possible other actors in this policy? How can these be explained?
The aim of this study is to estimate changes in Antarctic shelf ice extent by collecting and analysing historical maps and charts from around 1770 to the 1950s, containing ice data on Antarctica.
Circumpolar Studies is a series on Dutch research in the Polar regions published by the Arctic Centre, RUG, on a regular basis of one volume every two years.
Auteur: Nienke Boschman, Louwrens Hacquebord, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp (eds)
ISBN-10: 9077922016
ISSN: 1574-0374
Jaar van publicatie: 2005
Op 19 januari 2005, 35 jaar na de oprichting, telt het Arctisch Centrum tien medewerkers die zich bezighouden met historisch, geografisch, cartografisch, archeologisch, biologisch en milieukundig onderzoek in beide poolgebieden. Bovendien vertegenwoordigen zij Nederland in diverse internationale organisaties op het gebied van het poolonderzoek.
Auteur: Nienke Boschman and Louwrens Hacquebord (eds)
ISBN-10: 9080739073
ISSN: 1574-0374
Jaar van publicatie: 2004
With the publication of this special issue of Circumpolar Journal, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen would like to honour Piet Oosterveld as the driving force behind biological research on Edgeøya, Spitsbergen. He invested large amounts of time and energy in this research and he was an inspiration for many students.