National Snow & Ice Data Center

nsidc-eloka002

Sea Ice in the Belcher Islands, Nunavut, Canada

This data set contains interviews of three hunters from Sanikiliaq, Belcher Islands, in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. The hunters describe their observations of sea ice conditions around the Belcher Islands gathered from their many hunting expeditions. The local and traditional knowledge (LTK) gathered from these interviews reveals that the ice is changing and becoming more dangerous and less predictable than it once was. In addition to the three video interviews, the hunters drew important ice features and changes on maps which are included as part of the data set. Photographs of ice conditions at specific places on the maps are available. Two of the three interviews are in English; the third is in Inuktitut and English. Data are available via the Product Web Site as edited video files, maps, and photographs. Full video interviews, maps, and photographs are on ftp as a compressed file via the Access Data link.

http://nsidc.org/data/ELOKA002

Identified by : ELOKA002

This dataset was released on April 01, 2010.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1993 to April 01, 2009.

The spatial range for this dataset is 55.56779° to 56.93479° latitude, and -80.22399° to -78.78479° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.7265/N5G44N7X
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/ELOKA002 (nsidc lexicon)