Volume 4, 1951 - The Arctic Circle - Home

such as the testing and evaluation of new equipment and
teohniques, ice reconnaissance, and weather analysis.
Those students who are unfamiliar with the Arotic take
the opportunity to put into actual practioe the techniques
they have learned and practioed in simulated flights farther
south. Between flights, the students are kept busy evaluating
their flights and the data they have obtained. On
oompletion of the 2-week period in the north, the course
returns to Summerside for the final two weeks' study.
Arctic navigation is by no means formidable, although
it is singled out for special attention. Problems are enoountered
that are not met in lower latitudes but, onoe
they are understood and allowance ia made for them, navigation
in the Arctio can be safe and accurate. (For a
disoussion of the problems of arctic navigation see Arctic
Circular, Vol. 1 (1948) pp. 62-4).
Information on a new Game Act for northeast Green1and
ia given in the Times for 31 January 1951. The Act covers
the area from Sooresby Sound in central east Green1and to
Petermannts Glacier in northwest Green1and, about one third
of the who1e Island, and gives oomp1ete protection to a11
species of goose and their eggs. Since this area contains
all the breeding grounds of the Barnacle goose and the
Pink-footed goose and almost all the breeding areas of the
Brent goose, the Aot is of great interest to other countries
to which these birds migrate in winter. ln addition a
reserve has been made at Sandë in Young Sound, where the
Sabine gull breeds.
The Act also gives protection to certain mammals.
The number of musk oxen which May be ahot annually is
strictly controlled, trappers being allowed to kill six,
of which two on1y May be oows; other persons are restricted
to one animal each. Only rifles may be used, and living
specimens or the flesh of the musk ox may not be exported.
Fox and polar bear are given a closed season and walrus
are completely protected north of latitude 74 0 24 N. The
use of poison is prohibited.
The Act comes into force on 1 June 1951. Exceptions,
under strict control, are allowed in the interests of sclentific
research.