ISS 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Clifford Sifton, Otto Sverdrup, Sverdrup Islands
30 Oct 2016
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They were anxious to assure that the north american arctic did not fall into foreign hands. The two symbolic feats were: navigating the northwest passage and standing at the north pole. Westward across ellesmere island which resulted in his discovery of the islands he named axel. Heilberg, amund ringnes, and ellef ringnes: what was the purpose of the expedition commissioned by laurier"s minister of the interior, Clifford sifton by the dgs (dominion government ship) neptune and a detachment of northwest. Barnier expects to make an attempt to reach the north pole in the arctic after completing the present trip . Note that the banal practices of raising flags, reading proclamations, leaving written declarations on cairns, issuing license notices for whalers and fishermen, collecting taxes and duties are and still are the way countries assert sovereignty over a territory. [in 2004, denmark and canada began marking little.
