Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island

By Christopher R. Burn

Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. Herschel Island was a logistical center during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. As a wilderness park, it is a semi-contained ecosystem and presents land, ocean, and coastal environments.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988000903
• ISBN13: 9780988000902
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.1"