File:FMIB 35557 -Hood and Harp Seal Distribution in Newfoundland-.jpeg

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George Allan England  (1877–1936)  wikidata:Q4200617 s:en:Author:George Allan England
 
George Allan England
Description American novelist and science fiction writer
Date of birth/death 9 February 1877 Edit this at Wikidata 26 June 1936 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nebraska United States of America
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creator QS:P170,Q4200617
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English: [Hood and Harp Seal Distribution in Newfoundland]

a. Hudson Bay herd, not hunted commercially. The migration is north and south up and down the Bay b. Harps. Summer home in Baffin Bay. Winter fishing found on the banks. Migration divides at Straits of Belle Isle, part passing down to the coast of Newfoundland and part through Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cabot Strait . c. Hoods. Summer home in western coast of Greenland. Winter fishing found on banks. Migration divides same as B. But hoods are always to seaward of harps. This entails a crossing over of the 'Strings' of seals, in Straits of Belle Isle . d. Comparatively unknown body of seals on eastern coast of Greenland

  • Subject: Harp seal, Hooded seal, Newfoundland--Maps
  • Geographic Subject: Canada--Newfoundland
  • Tag: Polar
Date 1924
date QS:P571,+1924-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
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35557
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English: England, George Allan (1924) Vikings of the Ice : Being the Log of a Tenderfoot on the Great Newfoundland Seal Hunt, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, p. 19
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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