Frontiers North Adventures | Blog » Cape Churchill http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 We spotted our first bear of the summer! http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2011/07/first-bear-of-the-summer/ http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2011/07/first-bear-of-the-summer/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:23:15 +0000 tricia.schers http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/?p=2220
First Bear Sighting of Summer 2011
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On our first Tundra Buggy Adventure of the summer we saw a very curious bear at Halfway Point. She checked us out for about half an hour.  Everyone enjoyed taking tons of pictures of her!  She seemed to be a bit on the small side. Usually at this time of the year they (polar bears) are quite well fed, but this bear did not seem to be that way. With the early break-up of the ice, feeding season for the bears was once again a bit short this year.  Read more about the early ice-breakup from our friends at Polar Bears International.

Where the heck is Halfway Point you ask?

Halfway Point is generally considered by locals as the mid-way point between Churchill and Cape Churchill. The thin peninsula reaches out into the Hudson Bay and is a popular spot with the polar bears both in summer and winter months.


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Also on our tour we saw Sandhill Cranes and many Canada Geese with their wee goslings. We actually saw two bears on the tour, thought the other one was far in the distance sleeping.

Submitted by: Dave Allcorn, Frontiers North Adventures

]]> http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2011/07/first-bear-of-the-summer/feed/ 0 Legendary Cape Churchill Image An All-Time Top 40 http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2010/04/legendary-cape-churchill-image-an-all-time-top-40/ http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2010/04/legendary-cape-churchill-image-an-all-time-top-40/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:00:19 +0000 frontiersnorth http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/?p=1906 Along with Dan Guravich and Daniel J. Cox, Tom Mangelsen is one of a handful of photographers that helped bring images of Churchill’s polar bears into popular culture. Although he hasn’t traveled with us to Cape Churchill in over a decade, Tom’s images are still making an impact, as shared by the London Telegraph.

This image of Tom’s was singled out by International League of Conservation Photographers as one of the Top 40 Nature Photographs of all time to help celebrate Christie’s inaugural Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on the 40th annual Earth Day this April 22nd. Congratulations Tom!

Image © Tom Mangelsen

]]> http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2010/04/legendary-cape-churchill-image-an-all-time-top-40/feed/ 0 The Godfather of Polar Bears http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2010/02/the-godfather-of-polar-bears/ http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/2010/02/the-godfather-of-polar-bears/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:04:56 +0000 frontiersnorth http://www.frontiersnorth.com/blog/?p=1287 In 2008, along with PBI we had the opportunity to host Nat and Alex Wolff of the Nat & Alex Wolff Band (formerly the Naked Brothers Band) at Cape Churchill. While at the Cape, the brothers filmed a few informative videos where they interviewed such heavyweights in the polar bear research community as Dr. Ian Stirling and Steven Amstrup.

Here is Alex Wolff and his interview with the “Godfather of Polar Bears”, Dr. Stirling from a Tundra Buggy at Cape Churchill where they discuss polar bear tagging, the issues of climate change in the North, and his experience in a polar bear den.

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