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Every summer, a number of pilot whales was hunted on the island of Vágar in the northwest of the Faroe Islands archipelago.
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Registration is open for the Arctic Energy Summit 2015 ""Security and Affordability for a Resilient North", that will be held inFairbanks, Alaska, on September 28-30.
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A selection of Arctic Portal maps are now available online for free download. Since 2009, Arctic Portal has been providing visual information about Arctic related information (as sea-ice conditions, shipping lines, resources, Arctic people, governance, etc..) through various databases.
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"On 3 August 2015, the Russian Federation submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in accordance with Article 76, paragraph 8, of the Convention, and with reference to its Submission of 20 December 2001, information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured in respect of the Arctic Ocean" theCommission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)'s website reported yesterday.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut (July 31, 2015) – The European Union (EU) has formally approved the Government of Nunavut's (GN) application to become a Recognized Body under the Indigenous Communities Exemption of the EU Seal Regime.
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"Arctic Biodiversity Through the Lens", a photography exhibit displaying the beauty of the Arctic, will open in Akureyri, Iceland, Friday July 31 at the Hof Cultural building at 14:00.
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Individuals with expertise in the maritime Arctic and future potential exploitation are cordially invited to participate in a roundtable discussion to discuss the risks to, and the resilience of, the Arctic with regards to increased transport and offshore activities. The roundtable will take place Tuesday, September 8th 2015 atIMarEST HQ, Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street, London.
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The Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy seeks a Visiting Professor of Arctic Studies for a two-year teaching/research fellowship position. The successful applicant will deliver Arctic-related undergraduate courses, seminars, or other academic instruction at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Develop and conduct rigorous academic law, social science and/or policy based research on Arctic-specific issues.
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The U.S. Department of State will host a major event in Anchorage, Alaska on August 30-31, 2015 entitled the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER).
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On Friday, July 24, a session of the Russian Defense Ministry took place in Moscow under the leadership of the Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. The Board session was attended by the representatives of federal executive authorities and the leadership of the Armed Forces.
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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has called the ambassadors of the United States of America, Denmark, Canada, Norway and the Russian Federation to a meeting in the ministry and made observations on the consultation of the five states on fishing in the Arctic Ocean, signed in Oslo last week.
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It is now available onYouTube, theanimation of maps of sea ice age classification from 1978 through mid-July 2015. The animation has been created by theArctic Portal Team (http://arcticportal.org), based on research data provided by Mark Tschudi, CCAR, University of Colorado (http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nsidc).
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The third Arctic Circle Assembly will be held, as the previous years, in Reykjavik, on October 16-18, 2015. However, this year,for the first time, two additional events will be hosted, the first in Alaska (August 23-25, 2015) and the second in Singapore (November 12th, 2015), both under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle Assembly.
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The 1st Central European Polar Meeting will be held from 10th to 13th November 2015, at theAustrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. This meeting is a memorial to the Austrian polar explorer and scientist Julius Payer (1841-1915), to commemorate his achievements for the international polar sciences. It is jointly organized by the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech Republic, and the Austrian Polar Research Institute, in cooperation with the National Committee for Global Change of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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The Alaskan Arctic, a Summit on Shipping and Ports, will be held onAugust 23–25, 2015 atHotel Captain Cook - Anchorage, Alaska. The summit isconvened under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle as the first in a series of issues-based forums held around the world.
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