December 12, 2003

Site of the Week - Northern Lights Forecast
Daily forecasts of the level of auroral activity to be expected.

Photo of the Week - Fishing on Lake Laberge
Your guide shows off a fine lake trout caught on a September outing with Spirit of the North Guides.

October 10, 2003

Site of the Week - Southeast Alaska Airports (site now gone)
If you've wondered what it's like to fly the Alaska coast, here are lots of photos from the cockpit.

Photo of the Week - Evening on Lake Schwatka
A beautifully-restored de Havilland Beaver (CF-FHZ) on Lake Schwatka at Whitehorse, Yukon at 10:25 PM.

May 3, 2003

Site of the Week - Yukon Innovations
Many people consider the level of innovation occurring in an economy and society to be the single most important predictor of future success.

Photo of the Week - Yellowknife Silver (link now dead)
A beautiful waterfront study by Ed Hardy, from Frostbyte Photos, his large Yellowknife album.

April 18, 2003

Site of the Week - Road Signs of the Yukon
Heritage Yukon takes you on a tour of the historic interpretive signs along Yukon highways.

Photo of the Week - "The Troll's Path"
Vincent Lowe shows us the Trollstigen, an amazing piece of road construction in Isterdalen, Norway.

April 4, 2003

Site of the Week - All Things Arctic
As well as offering a wide range of Arctic-related posters, videos, clothing, etc., there is a large and excellent Arctic information section.

Photo of the Week - Alaska Airlines 1949
"Large planes with conventional landing gear can land on the sea ice." This DC-3 is shown at Tigvariak Island, off Alaska's north coast, in the spring of 1949.

March 19, 2003

Site of the Week - Alaska Birch Syrup
Kahiltna Birchworks has an excellent We site describing their operation, and the making of syrup from white birch trees.

Photo of the Week - Lake Bennett Morning
With the full moon dipping behind Gray Mountain, this morning was one of those truly magical ones.

March 6, 2003

Site of the Week - Travel and Stay at Home
The ResidenSea, "a resort community circumnavigating the globe," will be in many Northern ports this coming summer.

Photo of the Week - 1955 Revisited
In rural Alaska, time can seem to stand still, as Henk Binnendijk shows in this scene from Copper Center.

February 13, 2003

Site of the Week - Klondike: The Quest for Gold (site now gone)
This Canadian television series follows four men and one woman who retrace the historic route taken during the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

Photo of the Week - Stikine River
The river as seen above Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.

February 6, 2003

Site of the Week - Arctic Bibliographic Database
The searchable Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database contains over 50,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada.

Photo of the Week - Icelandic Hotspring (link now dead)
Those of you who like wilderness hotsprings will love this one! From the excellent Icelandic album of the Ijslandspecialist tour company.

January 29, 2003

Site of the Week - Whittier Tunnel
The highway tunnel to Whitter, Alaska, is a marvelous piece of engineering, and the DoT's Web site about it does a good job of showing it.

Photo of the Week - Lake Laberge, Yukon
Enjoying a peaceful beach in the southern Yukon.

December 22, 2002

Site of the Week - Jeep Alaska
"Tread lightly", say the 4x4 ads - not with this mud-spattered crowd!

Photo of the Week - Faroe Islands
An aerial photo of the island of Kunoy, by Anfinn Frederiksen.

December 5, 2002

Site of the Week - Yukon Expedition
Bruce Ritchie has posted his journal and photos from an archaeological expedition to the Yukon in 1959, when he was 15.

Photo of the Week - Geothermal Iceland (link now dead)
A dramatic photo of the steaming valley Kerlingarfjöll (Kjölur), from IJslandspecialist.

November 28, 2002

Site of the Week - "The Viking Answer Lady"
The site is now gone...

Photo of the Week - Dawson City at Night
The Red Feather Saloon on a snowy night.

October 3, 2002

North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919
An excellent account of this little-known campaign, using materials compiled by P.O. George William Smith, signalman on one of the ships involved.

Photo of the Week - Historic BC Mine
A photo of a log cabin overlooking the huge Salmon Glacier in remote northern British Columbia.