GEO 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homeland Movement, Permafrost, Ice Road
7 Mar 2015
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19th century: mineral resources are found in the territories, we did not have to technology to appropriate these sources, discouraged canadians to try. Geo605: machinery that allows us to go into these areas, global warming has allowed us easy exploration of these areas, ex. Geo605: resident population, degree of economic activity, each scores a location between 0-100, value of 200 is considered the sourthern limit of the north. North is n > 200, cape bounty ~ 984: toronto < 50, edmonton = 125, white horse = 258, iqaluit = 584, alert = 878. It formalizes the concept of northness: northern salary benefits, tax benefits. It considers northern environmental factors: permafrost, precipitation, utilized continuous quantitative data. North: global warming has had a greater impact than elsewhere in canada. How to get to yellowknife: by road you need to cross the makenzie river at fort providence, summer it"s a ferry crossing.
