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Article: A polar eclipse: in the land of the midnight sun, hunters can become the hunted.
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- Petersen's Hunting
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- February 1, 2003
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March 27, 2002: Cape Dorset, Nunavut. It's not cold exactly--10, maybe 20 below--but there's hardly any wind. I'm dressed for colder. It's absolutely stunning. The snow is brilliant with the sun shining on the white, and the rocks are pitch black. Beautiful. The dogs are pulling fast and fresh. We're off.
Three hours from Cape Dorset, we mush onto the flat ocean ice and spot a polar bear standing about 400, 500 yards away. He's probably a seven-footer--gorgeous, so primitive, so white. The bear runs off, then sits at the edge of the land and the sea. The sun shimmers across the beautiful, flat ice and the impressive white bear, and I hope the sighting is a good ...
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...9780764941917 Cape Dorset prints, a retrospective; fifty years of printmaking at the Kinngait ... drawings produced since the late 1950s by Inuit artists at a studio in Cape Dorset, on Baffin Island, in Hudson Bay, Canada. The works are reproduced ...
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