Dorset Culture Summer Settlement Bylot Island
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The remains of a whale skull that would have provided one of the uprights for the tented structure. There would have been a "rostrum" sticking out towards the camera from the gap in the middle of this bone that would have formed one of the uprights.
Air temp: +3ºC Latitude: 74º30'N Longitude: 83º31'W
Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise to the High Arctic in high summer, from Resolute Bay, Canada to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.