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![Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/iceberg.jpg.webp?itok=ETprs4Vs)
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The Arctic and The Antarctic
Travel to the ends of the earth—literally—and discover the polar ocean basins.......![A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Fig_1_-_Overview_Map.jpg.webp?itok=qSY4typn)
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Archaeologists Investigate an Early Whaling Community
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologist, William Fitzhugh, has been......![Narwhals with their long unicorn-like tusks.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Narwhals_breach_Glenn_Williams.jpeg.webp?itok=lIA-6sXZ)
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Native Knowledge of the Narwhal
The narwhal is an elusive mammal. During the winter months they feed in the deep......
March 2020
![a seven inch fragment of an Inuit soapstone pot recovered at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Fig_9_-_Inuit_occupation_evidence_Soapstone_pot_fragment.jpg.webp?itok=In9fs1Qu)
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Inuit Soapstone Pot
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologists have been investigating an......![A researcher holds a maritime archaic point made of ramah chert that was found at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2011](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Fig_7_-_Lauren_Marr_holds_a_Maritime_Archaic_Point_made_of_Ramah_Chert_found_in_2011.JPG.webp?itok=Sy0T8Qqb)
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Ancient Maritime Archaic Indian Point
Smithsonian surveys along the lower north shore of Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada......![Aerial view of two bowhead whales swimming in the ocean.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result/public/Bowhead-Whales-NOAA.jpg.webp?itok=TQNoG5eI)
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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time
In the episode of One Species at a Time, writer Karen Romano Young takes an......![A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/%28GW%29-narwhal-tusk.jpg.webp?itok=VHU7jvmg)
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous
In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides......
August 2017
![Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Fig_5_-_Frederic_Simard_and_Erik_Phanuef_display_two_ceramic_vessels_found_during_2007_underwater_Excavations.JPG.webp?itok=3Cj7J6LV)
Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada
For over a decade, Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center archaeologist, William......
September 2011