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School Talks
Intended for elementary school students, our school talks are meant to share with them the beauties of the Far North. Each talk consists of a one hour commented presentation supported by photographs and video extracts. The students are invited to interact and to ask their questions as these come up.
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Arctic Wildlife |
Duration : 1 hour |
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Discover the wildlife that lives above the Arctic Circle. Using photographs and videos brought back from trips to Nunavut,
Svalbard (Norway) and Nunatsiavut (Labrador), the students will witness the various encounters we have had with the arctic wildlife. Among others, they will meet :
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Mammals: polar bears, belugas, musk oxen, bearded seals, walruses and reindeers.
- Birds : arctic sterns, skuas (pirates of the seas) and snowy owls
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The Arctic is indisputably a country of ice. But ice can take various forms. Using photographs and videos brought back from trips to Newfoundland and Labrador as well as from Svalbard (Norway), the students will learn to distinguish icebergs, glaciers and the ice floes. They will also witness various encounters we have had with the arctic wildlife (polar bears, walruses, seals to name a few). |
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Somerset Island: white ghosts country |
Duration : 1 hour |
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Located above the 74th parallel North and facing the North-West Passage, Somerset Island is the 12th largest island in Canada. Every summer, hundreds if not thousands of belugas congregate in the Cunningham Inlet estuary to rub against the rocky bottom to molt their skin. Witness this unique ritual!! Using photographs, videos and fossils brought back from 2 stays on the island, the students will:
- discover the wildlife (emphasis on belugas), the flora and the landscapes of the High Arctic;
- discover the characteristics of the Arctic environment (e.g.: mollisols, midnight sun, inuksuk) and see the logistics surrounding life on an uninhabited island;
- have a preview of an Inuit village: Resolute (the second northernmost village in Canada);
- touch fossils that are over 450 million years old and bowhead whale bones.
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Conferences for adults |
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Somerset Island: white ghosts country |
Duration : 1 hour |
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Located above the 74th parallel North and facing the North-West Passage, Somerset Island is the 12th largest island in Canada. Every summer, hundreds if not thousands of belugas congregate in the Cunningham Inlet estuary to rub against the rocky bottom to molt their skin. Photographs and videos brought back from 2 stays on the island will enable you to witness this unique ritual. Also discover the flora, the landscapes and the logistics surrounding the operation of a lodge on this uninhabited island of the Canadian High Arctic.
This presentation can be offered in conjunction or separately from the photo exhibit titled Somerset Island: white ghosts country.
For more photos, visit the Somerset Island photo gallery.
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Arctic Adventures : from Churchill's polar bears to Svalbard's ice floes |
Duration : 1 hour |
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This presentation is meant to give you an overview of three of my favourite places in the Arctic : Somerset Island (Nunavut's uninhabited island where I was bitten by the Arctic bug), Svalbard (the archipelago in the Barents Sea halfway between Norway and the North Pole) and Churchill, Manitoba (the polar bear & beluga whale capital of the word).
For an overview, visit the Norway and Svalbard, Somerset Island photo galleries and take a peek at our blog entries about our October 2010 and August 2011 trips to Churchill. |
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Cruise around the Svalbard archipelago |
Duration : 1 hour |
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Located in Arctic Ocean halfway between the northern tip of Norway and the North Pole, the Svalbard archipelago extends between the 74° and 81° parallels North. According to the Vikings' sagas, forty days of navigation were required to reach Svalbard, “the island with cold shores”. Discover this country of mountains and glaciers. Navigate through the ice floes up to the 82° parallel. See the traces left by the hunters, the whalers and the coal miners who came here for centuries to exploit its resources, in some cases almost to extinction. Witness our encounters with the Arctic wildlife (walruses, polar bears, bearded seals, arctic foxes, etc.).
For an overview, visit the Norway and Svalbard photo gallery. |
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Nunatsiavut |
Duration : 1 hour |
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Come with us to discover Nunatsiavut («Our beautiful land »), home to the inuits of the northern part of the Labrador peninsula. Relive the warm welcomes we received in the villages of Makkovik and Nain. Be moved by the story of the Hebron moravian mission and by that of its inhabitants. Be filled with wonder at the sight of the spectacular landscapes of the Torngat Mountains National Park. Today's inuits keep their conception of a spiritual presence in the Torngat Mountains (Torngait, in Inuktitut means «place inhabited by the spirits») they will all convince you that these beliefs are not legends.
For an overview, visit the Nunatsiavut photo gallery. |
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Rates :
- Contact us
- Prices are negociable based on the number of presentations and other conditions.
- Provincial and federal taxes are extra.
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Polar Horizons is a member of the Association québécoise pour la promotion de l'éducation relative à l'environnement. |
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