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What do people eat on the Antarctic. What do people eat in the Arctic? What do people eat in the Arctic?

What do people eat in the Arctic?

Even though the environment in the Arctic prevents people from growing their own food, people still have a varied diet. Peoples in arctic regions have traditionally eaten a variety of fish, seals, whales and caribou, as well as the numerous types of plants and delicious berries that grow naturally in the Arctic. In addition, Eurasian Arctic peoples adopted reindeer domestication as their main subsistence pattern about 2,000 years ago. Frederick Cook. Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908.

Frederick Cook

This was a year before April 6, 1909, the date claimed by American explorer Robert Peary, and the accounts were disputed for several years.[1] His expedition did discover Meighen Island, the only discovery of an island in the American Arctic by a United States expedition. After reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled in December 1909 that he had not reached the pole.

In 1911 Cook published a memoir of his expedition, continuing to assert their success. His 1906 account of having reached the summit of Mount McKinley has also been discredited. The first undisputed explorers to walk on the North Pole ice were documented in 1969 during a British expedition led by British explorer Wally Herbert (see the list of firsts in the Geographic North Pole). Biography[edit] II.4: INUIT FOOD: 4. Cooking and Eating ~ People of the Arctic by John Tyman. Text, photos and recordings by John TymanIntended for Educational Use Only.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, 2010.Contact Dr.

II.4: INUIT FOOD: 4. Cooking and Eating ~ People of the Arctic by John Tyman

John Tyman for more information regarding licensing. Photo processing, Web page layout, and formatting byWilliam Hillman | www.hillmanweb.comAssistant Professor ~ Faculty of Education ~ Brandon University ~ Brandon, Manitoba ~ Canada. What we wear. How can you survive in the coldest place in the world?

What we wear

Well, the obvious reply is because we are all Super Heroes! But the truth is that the base is warm and cosy, and we work inside in T-shirts and jeans mostly. Outside, we have modern clothing (layer after layer after layer) which is light and comfortable. What we do realise is that working in the time of Shackleton and Scott must have been very hard, with poor equipment, poor food and no vehicles. Physically it is not so bad! What kind of protection do you wear on your face to stop frostbite? If you keep your back to the wind you can keep your face relatively warm. How many layers of clothes do you wear? The Arctic People - Food / Hunting / Tools.

The Arctic People - Food / Hunting / Tools. What matirials do people use to build shelter? Tents, shelters and huts. Expeditioners stay in various forms of accommodation depending on their activities.

Tents, shelters and huts

There is a range of shelter available from permanent field huts to transportable 'Apple' huts and tents. If you are caught out unexpectedly, you may have no option but to quickly build an emergency snow shelter, or bunk down in your bivvy bag. Tents are the most common form of field accommodation. The polar pyramid, the Antarctic dome and the smaller Bechervaise (known as 'Beche') tents are provided on the continent. The dome tent is also used on Heard Island. If you are staying for any length out in the field, you may stay in more permanent or durable types of accommodation, such as an Apple hut or a traverse van.

The AAD has researched different kinds of field accommodation products that can be used in Antarctica in an effort to improve the energy efficiency and environmental impact of field accommodation.