Joensuu
Joensuu , city (1998 pop. 51,113), Eastern Finland prov., SE Finland. It is the trade center of the forest region of NE Karelia, has plywood mills, and is an important lake port. It was chartered in 1848 as a copper town. The modern city hall was designed by Eliel Saarinen . A university was established there in 1969.
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Two new books explore the life of climbing legend Brad Washburn.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 10/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...than once during his mountain climbing days - days...Yukon Territory's Saint Elias mountain range to conquer the...pilot flew them to the mountain's base, but they...live in an era that had mountains that hadn't been climbed...
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Do glaciers listen?; local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 513 words
; ...sociology, U. of British Columbia) palette as she portrays the icefields flowing from the mountain spine where Canada and the US meet at the Saint Elias Mountain divide. Among her topics are memories of the Little Ice Age, glaciers as social spaces...
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Kayaking the wilderness waterways of southern Alaska.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 6/1/1989; 700+ words
; ...you paddle past giant glaciers and soaring coastal mountains; on others, you mosey along narrow inlets fringed...northwest. Fringed by the snow-crested Fairweather and Saint Elias mountain ranges, Glacier Bay boasts 16 tidewater glaciers...
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Flight to the Ice Age
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...glaciers and mountain meadows. During...lie in the Saint Elias Mountains in the southwest...The Saint Elias rangeincluding...spectacular mountain meadows. No...from the Sheep Mountain Visitor Centre...southward over the mountains, the views...
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Conquering a wilderness.
Newspaper article from: Buxton Advertiser (Buxton, England); 8/2/2005; 528 words
; ...on the Donjek Glacier, which is situated in the Saint Elias range of mountains in the Yukon Territory. Accompanied by a friend...dropped at night to -20 degrees celsius. "The Saint Elias mountains are also renowned for having great big...
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Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of human encounters located in the glaciers of the Saint Elias Mountains of the Northwest Coast of North America provides...perspective, glaciers and ice fields in the Mount Saint Elias region are sensitive records of climate change where...
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Albert J. Jackman, 88 Was geographer, outdoorsman
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/5/1997; 408 words
; ...War II and the Korean War. He served with the 10th Mountain Division during the Italian campaign in World War...McKinley and made several first climbs in Canada's Saint Elias Mountains. Mr. Jackman had a lifelong love of the outdoors...
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KNOW IT ALL.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/7/2004; 536 words
; ...Mount Logan is located in the Yukon Territory in the Saint Elias Mountains near the Alaska border; the peak was named in 1891...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau wanted to rename the mountain Mount Trudeau, but the plan met with strong opposition...
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Glaciers.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...impression that this is all Alaskan territory (as discussed in the text), whereas a considerable portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, where extensive research in glaciology has been done, is in Yukon (Canada). On page 316, two figures illustrate...
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The Owl That Hunts by Light
Magazine article from: Natural History; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...North can be tardy, almost shy. I had arrived that same day, after a week of travel to reach the remote Kluane-Saint Elias mountains, in Canada's Yukon Territory. It was a magnificent setting for a research project on the ecology of the boreal...
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Saint Elias Mountains
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Elias Mountains section of the Coast Ranges, SW Yukon Territory, Canada, and SE Alaska, rising to 19,551 ft (5,959 m) at Mt. Logan, Canada's highest peak. Kluane National Park is there.
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Tlingit
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Tlingit of Alaska occupy a range of mountains from 50 to 100 miles inland...majesty of the Fairweather and Saint Elias mountains overlooking the northern shores of the Gulf of Alaska. Fjords, mountains that dive into the sea, islands...
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Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve...Chugach, Wrangell, and St. Elias mts., SW Alaska. The...hectares) contains Mt. Saint Elias (18,008 ft/5,489...collection of glaciers and mountain peaks above 16,000 ft...
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Mountain Climbing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, or mountaineering, the...peaks. Most often a group sport, mountain climbing requires teamwork and skill...climbed in 1872. In Alaska, Mount Saint Elias was climbed in 1897, and Mount Blackburn...
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Yukon Region
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...dominated by the great mountains that form the western...North America. The Saint Elias range in southwestern...the highest mountain in Canada. The location of the mountains influences the climate...warm summers. The mountains block the mild Pacific...
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