Nunavut
wörtlich ‚Unser Land‘, (eigentlich ‚Unser Heimatland‘) ist ein Territorium im Norden Kanadas mit besonderen Rechten für die dort lebenden Inuit. Es grenzt im Westen an die Nordwest-Territorien, im Osten an Grönland und im Süden an die Provinzen Manitoba, Ontario und Québec. Hauptstadt ist Iqaluit (früherer Name Frobisher Bay) auf der größten kanadischen Insel, der Baffininsel.
Nordwest Passage
Franklin’s lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer. His fourth and last, undertaken when he was 59, was meant to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After a few early fatalities, the two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. The entire expedition, 129 men including Franklin, was lost.
Nanook of the North
is a 1922 American silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, with elements of docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.
In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The film has been incorrectly considered the first feature-length documentary. Some have criticized Flaherty for staging several sequences, but the film is generally viewed as standing „alone in its stark regard for the courage and ingenuity of its heroes.“
In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being „culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant“.