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Ships in Nuuk harbor in summer 1860

Arctic Fever: Image and narrative in North Circumpolar voyaging of the long nineteenth century

The Arctic is feverishly topical now because of the pressures of climate change on the north circumpolar ecosystem and its Indigenous communities. The phrase 'Arctic fever', however, arose in the 19th century to describe the unquenchable passion for Arctic exploration. The exhibition brings these urgencies together through visual and textual accounts of the circumpolar Arctic […]
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