Arcadia
The Aura River Ice Jam in Turku, March 1903
Historical documents provide detailed descriptions of ice-jam flood events and climate impacts in riverine communities.
Historical documents provide detailed descriptions of ice-jam flood events and climate impacts in riverine communities.
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
Once an environment in which the notion of nations was unheard of, the Arctic region is now a disputed space among superpowers. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—written and curated by historian Elena Baldassarri.