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by Malachy Tallack

gold mining in ref1

  oil extraction in ref1

  Quebec nationalism ref1

  Canol road and pipeline ref1

  Cape Farewell ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Cape Morris Jessup ref1

  Cape Verde (Fortunate Isles) ref1

  Carson, Rachel ref1

  Carta Marina ref1

  cartography, development of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Cassette Rapids (Slave River) ref1

  Catherine the Great ref1

  Channerwick ref1

  Christian V, King of Denmark ref1

  Chuckchi people ref1

  Churchill (Canada) ref1

  climate cooling ref1

  Conquest, Robert ref1

  Cook Inlet ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cooper Landing ref1

  Copenhagen ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  cormorants ref1

  Cornwall ref1

  crop failures ref1

  dachas ref1

  Dalstroy organisation ref1, ref2

  Davidson, Hilda Ellis ref1

  Davis Strait ref1

  Decembrists ref1, ref2

  Decembrists’ Square, St Petersburg ref1

  Dene people ref1, ref2

  Diamond, Jared ref1

  diamond mining ref1, ref2

  dippers ref1

  Disappointment River – see Mackenzie River

  dog sledding ref1

  Dorset people ref1, ref2

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ref1

  Drammen ref1, ref2

  Durrell, Lawrence ref1

  East Greenland current ref1

  Eastern Settlement (Greenland) ref1

  Edmonton ref1, ref2

  Ehrlich, Gretel ref1

  eider ducks ref1

  Eirik the Red ref1, ref2

  Ekenäs ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England ref1

  Enckell, Maria Jarlsdotter ref1

  Encyclopaedia Britannica ref1

  Erik Jedvardsson, King (later St Erik) ref1, ref2

  Erikson, Gustaf ref1

  Esso (Siberia) ref1

  Estonia ref1

  Eudoxia, Tsaritsa ref1

  European Community ref1

  European Union ref1

  Even people ref1, ref2

  Evenk people ref1

  Fagervik ref1

  Fair Isle ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Falconet, Etienne Maurice ref1

  Faroe Islands ref1

  ferry services ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Fetlar ref1

  Finland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  adopting the Euro ref1

  annexed by Russia ref1

  culture of saunas in ref1

  declaring independence ref1

  Duchy of ref1, ref2

  first parliament in ref1

  having universal suffrage ref1

  landscape of ref1

  member of EU ref1

  place in Russian history ref1

  right to roam in ref1

  Swedish spoken in ref1

  Finland, Gulf of ref1, ref2

  Finland Station, St Petersburg ref1

  Finnish language ref1

  Finnish nationalism ref1

  Finse ref1

  fishing industry ref1

  Fitzgerald-Smith corridor ref1

  Fort Fitzgerald (formerly Smith’s Landing) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fort Smith ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Fortunate Isles – see Cape Verde

  Fossum, Karin ref1

  Foula ref1

  Freyr ref1, ref2

  fulmars ref1

  fur trading ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Gamla (Old) Uppsala ref1

  Geilo ref1

  Gibraltar, Strait of ref1

  glaucous gulls ref1

  Gogol, Nikolai ref1

  gold mining ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  golden plovers ref1

  Good Shepherd IV ref1

  Gould, Glenn ref1, ref2

  Grænlendinga Saga ref1

  graphite mining ref1

  grayling ref1, ref2, ref3

  Grayling Lake ref1, ref2

  Great Purge of 1930s (Russia) ref1

  Great Greenland Fur Company ref1

  great skuas ref1

  Great Slave Lake ref1, ref2, ref3

  Green of Mandrup ref1, ref2

  Greenland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  alcoholism in ref1

  climate cooling in ref1

  crop failures in ref1

  early settlers in ref1

  government of ref1

  hunting, culture of ref1, ref2

  iron trading in ref1

  land ownership in ref1, ref2

  leaving the EC ref1

  mining for metals ref1

  oil industry development ref1

  rapid social change in ref1

  whaling industry ref1, ref2

  Greenlandic language ref1

  Group of Seven (artists) ref1

  Guerber, H.A. ref1

  gulags ref1, ref2

  Gulf of Alaska ref1

  Gulf Stream ref1

  Gustav Vasa, King of Sweden ref1, ref2, ref3

  halibut fishing ref1

  Halifax, Nova Scotia ref1, ref2

  Hamelin, Louis-Edmond ref1, ref2

  Hanseatic League ref1

  Hare Island ref1

  Hay River ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hellier (cargo ship) ref1, ref2

  Helsinki ref1, ref2

  Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg ref1

  Herscovici, Alan ref1

  High Level (Canada) ref1

  Hipparchus of Nicaea ref1

  Hitler, Adolf ref1

  Högholmen Island ref1, ref2

  Hogmanay Hurricane, Shetland 1991 ref1

  Homer (Alaska) ref1

  hooded crows ref1

  Hoswick ref1

  Huftarøy ref1

  Hudson Bay ref1

  Hudson’s Bay Company ref1

  Hughes, Ted ref1

  hunting, culture of ref1, ref2

  Husavik ref1

  Iceland ref1

  Iceland gulls ref1

  Indian Cabins ref1

  Inuit Circumpolar Conference ref1

  Inuit people ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Ireland, Republic of ref1

  Ireland (Shetland village) ref1

  iron trading ref1

  Jansson, Tove ref1

  Jung, Carl ref1

  Kalevala, The ref1, ref2

  Kamchatka ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Karelia ref1

  Kayak Island ref1

  Kenai Fjords National Park ref1

  Kenai Lake ref1

  Kenai National Wildlife Refuge ref1

  Kenai Peninsula ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Kenai River ref1, ref2

  Kirov, Sergei ref1

  Klondike gold rush ref1

  Knagg, Jacob Johan ref1, ref2

  Kodiak Island ref1

  Kollin, Susan ref1

  Kolyma labour camps ref1, ref2, ref3

  Koryak people ref1

  Kristensen, Ib ref1, ref2, ref3

  Kristensen, Lillian ref1

  Kristoffersen, David ref1

  Lake Athabasca ref1

  Lapland buntings ref1

  lapwings ref1

  Larsson, Stieg ref1

  Lascaux caves ref1

  League of Nations ref1

  Lenin, Vladimir ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Leningrad ref1, ref2

  reverting to St Petersburg ref1

  siege of, 1941 ref1

  see also St Petersburg

  Leopold, Aldo ref1

  Lerwick ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Linköping ref1

  Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) ref1

 
Loch of Vatsetter ref1

  Lönnrot, Elias ref1

  Lopez, Barry ref1

  Lynge, Aqqaluk ref1

  Lynge, Finn ref1

  Macfarlane, Robert ref1

  Mackenzie, Alexander ref1, ref2

  Mackenzie River ref1

  Maclean, Norman ref1

  Maclean, Wally ref1, ref2, ref3

  Magadan ref1, ref2, ref3

  Magnus, Bishop Johannes ref1

  Magnus, Olaus ref1

  Malleson, Lady Constance ref1

  Mankell, Henning ref1

  Mariehamn ref1

  Martin, Edward ref1

  McGill University, Montreal ref1

  McPhee, John ref1

  Mediaeval Warm Period ref1

  Medvedev, Dmitry ref1

  Melville, Herman ref1

  Métis people ref1

  Meyer, Eva ref1

  Middlesbrough ref1

  Mongolia ref1

  moose ref1

  Moose Pass ref1

  Moravian missionaries ref1

  Moscow ref1, ref2, ref3

  Mounds of the Kings, Uppsala ref1

  Mount Redoubt ref1, ref2

  Mountain Portage Rapids (Slave River) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Mousa ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Broch of ref1, ref2

  muskeg forest ref1

  Muskeg Express ref1

  Mutnovsky volcano ref1

  Nanortalik ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Napoleonic Wars ref1

  Narsaq ref1, ref2, ref3

  Narsarsuaq ref1

  narwhal tusks, trade in ref1, ref2

  NATO ref1

  Nenet people ref1

  Nesbø, Jo ref1

  Nevsky Prospekt, St Petersburg ref1

  Nicolas I, Tsar ref1, ref2

  Ninilchik ref1, ref2, ref3

  Njal’s Saga ref1

  Nordic extremism ref1

  ‘nordicity’ ref1, ref2

  Norfolk ref1

  Norman Wells ref1

  Norse gods ref1

  Norse people ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  North Pole ref1, ref2

  North Sea ref1, ref2

  North Star (Polaris) ref1, ref2

  Northwest Passage ref1

  Northwest Territories ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Norway ref1, ref2

  gaining independence from Sweden ref1

  joining NATO ref1

  oil wealth of ref1

  terrorism in ref1, ref2

  nostalgia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Nuuk ref1, ref2

  Odin ref1, ref2, ref3

  oil extraction ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Okhotsk, Sea of ref1, ref2

  Ordnance Survey ref1

  Oslo ref1

  bombings in ref1

  University of ref1

  Viking Ship Museum ref1

  Ougadougou ref1

  Our Lady of Kazan, Cathedral of (St Petersburg) ref1, ref2

  Out Skerries ref1

  Oxford ref1

  Pacific Ocean ref1

  pack ice ref1

  paganism ref1

  Paige, Harry W. ref1

  Palace Square, St Petersburg ref1

  Palme, Olaf, assassination of ref1

  Paulette, François ref1, ref2

  Peace River ref1

  Peace Valley ref1

  peat ref1, ref2, ref3

  Pelican Rapids (Slave River) ref1

  pelicans ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  penguins ref1

  Peter the Great, Tsar ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Petrograd ref1

  see also St Petersburg

  Petropavlosk ref1

  Picts ref1

  polar bears ref1, ref2

  Polaris (North Star) ref1, ref2

  Port Radium ref1

  Prague ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Presley, Elvis ref1

  Ptolemy, Claudius ref1, ref2

  Pushkin, Alexander ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Putin, Vladimir ref1

  Qaqortoq ref1, ref2

  Qaqqarsuasik ref1

  Quassik ref1

  Quebec nationalism ref1

  Quendale ref1

  Ramsholmen Island ref1, ref2

  Rapids of the Drowned (Slave River) ref1, ref2

  Raseborg Castle ref1

  Rasmussen, Knud ref1

  ravens ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Red Deer ref1

  reindeer ref1, ref2

  Repin, Ilya ref1, ref2

  Repino ref1, ref2

  Resurrection Bay ref1

  right to roam (allemansratt) ref1

  River Fyris ref1, ref2, ref3

  River Neva ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Rocky Mountains ref1

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. ref1

  Roost, The ref1

  Rostral Columns, St Petersburg ref1

  Rudbeck, Olof ref1

  Russia ref1, ref2

  collapse of Soviet Union ref1

  failed uprising of 1825 ref1

  Revolution of 1917 ref1, ref2

  Russian Academy of Sciences ref1

  Russian-American Company ref1, ref2

  Russian Museum, St Petersburg ref1

  Russian River ref1

  St Bridget ref1

  St Erik (King Erik Jedvardsson) ref1, ref2

  St Herman ref1

  St Isaac, Cathedral of (St Petersburg) ref1, ref2

  St Isodore, Church of (Fort Smith, Canada) ref1

  St Kilda ref1

  St Nicholas, Old Believer’s Church of (St Petersburg) ref1, ref2

  St Paul (ship) ref1

  St Peter (ship) ref1, ref2

  St Peter and St Paul, Cathedral of (St Petersburg) ref1

  St Petersburg ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Aleksanderovskiy Park ref1

  Bronze Horseman statue ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan ref1, ref2

  Cathedral of St Isaac ref1, ref2

  Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul ref1

  Decembrists’ Square ref1

  Finland Station ref1

  foundation of ref1, ref2

  haphazard architecture of ref1

  Hermitage Museum ref1

  known as Leningrad ref1

  known as Petrograd ref1

  Nevsky Prospekt ref1

  Old Believers Church of St Nicholas ref1, ref2

  Palace Square ref1

  River Neva ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Rostral Columns ref1

  Russian Museum ref1

  Stroganov Palace ref1, ref2

  Uprising Square ref1

  Winter Palace ref1

  see also Leningrad and Petrograd

  Sakha people ref1

  salmon fishing ref1, ref2

  Salt River ref1

  Sanders, Scott Russell ref1

  Sandvikvåg ref1

  Sandwick ref1, ref2

  Saqqaq people ref1

  Saskatchewan ref1

  saunas ref1

  Scalloway ref1

  Scandinavian crime writing ref1, ref2

  Scott, Captain Robert Falcon ref1

  sea eagles ref1, ref2

  sea ice ref1

  sea lions ref1, ref2

  sea otters ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  seals ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Seat of Mandrup ref1

  Selbjorn ref1

  Self, Will ref1

  selkies (seal people) ref1

  Seward ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Shalamov, Varlam ref1

  shamans ref1, ref2

  Sheep Pund ref1

  Shetland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24

  called Thule by Ptolemy ref1

  early peoples of ref1

  ‘hillfolk’ (tr
ows) ref1

  importance of peat ref1

  selkies, stories of ref1

  severe gales in ref1

  whaling industry ref1

  windfarms on ref1

  ‘Shetland Bus’ ref1

  Shetland Times ref1

  Shirreff, John ref1

  Shostakovich, Dmitri ref1

  Sibelius, Jean ref1

  Siberia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  climate of ref1, ref2

  gold mining in ref1

  gulags ref1, ref2

  shamans in ref1, ref2

  uranium mining in ref1

  siege of Leningrad, 941 ref1

  Sigurd o’Gord ref1

  sila (life force), concept of ref1, ref2, ref3

  sisu (perseverance), concept of ref1

  skraelings ref1

  skylarks ref1, ref2

  Slave Lake ref1

  Slave River ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Smith’s Landing (later Fort Fitzgerald) ref1, ref2

  Snyder, Gary ref1

  Soini, Timo ref1

  Solan IV ref1

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander ref1

  South Georgia ref1

  South Pole ref1

  Soviet Union ref1

  Spruce Island ref1

  Stalin, Joseph ref1, ref2, ref3

  Stang, Fabian ref1

  Statoil ref1

  Steller, Georg ref1, ref2

  Stenskov, Bolethe ref1

  Sterling Highway ref1, ref2

  Stokell, Sam ref1

  Stolmen ref1

  Stoltenber, Jens ref1

  storis (pack ice) ref1

  Stroganov Palace, St Petersburg ref1

  Sturluson, Snorri ref1

  Sumburgh Head ref1

  swans ref1

  Sweden ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  member of the EU ref1

  occupying Finland ref1

  Protestant reformation in ref1, ref2

  xenophobic politics in ref1

  Swedenborg, Emmanuel ref1

  Swedish People’s Party ref1

  taiga ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tall, Deborah ref1

  Tallinn ref1

  Tammisaari – see Ekenäs

  Thomson, Tom ref1

  Thor ref1

  Thule (name for Shetland) ref1

  Thule people ref1

  tirricks – see arctic terns

  Tree of Knowledge ref1

  trows ref1

  True Finns group ref1

  tundra ref1, ref2

  Tuniit people ref1, ref2

  Turku ref1

  unicorns – see narwhal

  Up Helly Aa festival ref1, ref2

  Uppsala ref1, ref2, ref3

  Gamla (Old) Uppsala ref1

  University of ref1, ref2

  Uprising Square, St Petersburg ref1

  Ural Mountains ref1, ref2

  uranium mining ref1, ref2, ref3

  Utøya ref1

  Våge ref1

  van Pelt, Jacques ref1, ref2

  Vancouver ref1

  Vasilevsky Island ref1, ref2

  Viking people ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Viking Ship Museum, Oslo ref1

  Vitebsky, Piers ref1

  Volkov, Mikhail ref1

  von Linne, Carl (Linnaeus) ref1

  walrus ref1, ref2

  Wanderers, The ref1

  Watt-Cloutier, Sheila ref1

  West, Rebecca ref1

  Western Settlement (Greenland) ref1

 

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