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last update: Jan 15, 2011
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The Polar Conservation Organisation (PCO) is a registered non-profit foundation, committed to working with and engaging industry players, communicating and educating the public and pressuring government organisations in the development of the necessary social, political and economic frameworks to ensure a sustainable future for both Polar Regions. In order achieve this objective, the PCO has and continues to develop specific projects and programs that target these areas.
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Norwegians want sunken ship “Maud” back from Canada
last update: Jul 20, 2011
From a “Globe and Mail – Canada” article: The ship has sat at the bottom of an Arctic fjord in Canada for the better part of a century, but now there is an international tug-of-war going on over who owns it.
The Norwegians, who really own it, believe it should be given back, but the people of Cambridge Bay in Nunavut say it’s part of their heritage and should remain in its icy grave. In addition, the Norwegians would need permission to move it from the Heritage Ministry, which has given no indication where it stands on the fate of the sunken ship.
The “Baymaud” was designed by famed polar explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway for a voyage to the North Pole, and was originally named the “Maud” after one of the country’s former queens.
Amundsen made his name as the first person to reach the South Pole, and even if the Maud did not reach the North Pole as he’d hoped, it still made a famous crossing of the Northwest Passage and a host of important scientific discoveries. So it is special to the Norwegians, who intend to build a museum to house it.
However, the Cambridge Bay residents, or at least a good number of them, say they have been looking at the top of the Baymaud for 80 years. After Amundsen abandoned it in 1925, it was purchased by the Hudson’s Bay Company which used it as a floating warehouse. But the winter ice took its toll and it sank in the bay where it was anchored in the winter of 1930. Only a small area of the ship’s starboard side was left visible above the waves.
Sixty years later, the Norwegian community of Asker, a suburb of Oslo, bought the ship for $1 from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The intent was to raise it and return it to the port where it was built.
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Globe and Mail, Canada – 18th July 2011
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“Nessie” in Alaska ?
last update: Jul 20, 2011
From a “Mail Online” article: Does Alaska have it's own Loch Ness monster ? In 2009, a local fisherman captured the unidentified creature on film. Of course, comparisons to Scotland's infamous Loch Ness Monster are being drawn.
Scientists believe that the large creature, 20 to 30ft long with humps on its back, could be a Cadborosaurus - a type of sea serpent that got its name from Cadboro Bay in British Columbia and is said to roam the North Pacific.
Paul LeBlond, former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia, told Discovery News: 'I am quite impressed with the video. Although it was shot under rainy circumstances in a bouncy ship, it's very genuine.'
The Cadborosaurus willsi, meaning 'reptile' or 'lizard' from Cadboro Bay, is an alleged sea serpent from the North Pacific thought to have a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water.
Sightings have been reported for years.
In 1937, a supposed body of the animal was found in the stomach of a whale captured by the Naden Harbour whaling station in the Queen Charlotte Islands, a British Columbia archipelago. Then, samples of the animal were brought to the Provincial Museum in Victoria, where curator Francis Kermode concluded they belonged to a fetal baleen whale. Mysteriously, the animal's remains, however, later disappeared.
Like other cryptids, animals whose existence is suggested but not yet recognised by scientific consensus, the Cadborosaurus has existed only in grainy photographs and eyewitness accounts.
John Kirk, president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, agrees, describing the video as being 'important.' He said: 'The fishermen simply don't know what they have got in terms of the creatures in this video.'
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Mail Online, 19th July 2011
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