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New web site for Arctic youth

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

A web site for youth in the Arctic includes facts and stories about the circumpolar world, information about issues that affect youth in the Arctic, conferences, work and internship opportunities as well as links to other sites. The site at www.okpik.org is a project of the Arctic Council’s Future of Children and Youth in the Arctic project.

January 14, 2005

Norway leads world in pizza eating

In 2004, Norwegians spent over $40 million on 50 million pizzas. They ate 22,000 tons of frozen pizzas, 13,000 tons of restaurant pizzas and 15,000 tons of home-made pizzas.

January 14, 2005

Alaskan walrus hunter gets three years

One of five men accused of killing 27 walruses for their tusks near Gambell, Alaska was sentenced last week to three years in prison.

Daniel P. Apassingok, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of unlawfully taking a walrus.

Along with four others, Apassingok was charged with shooting the walruses from a herd of about 150 animals about 19 miles from Gambell on May 21, 2003.

The men are also charged with selling the ivory and transporting the illegally taken walrus.

Federal law allows Alaska natives to hunt walruses for subsistence and use the ivory for limited purposes, but it is illegal to take or sell the ivory if the meat is not used.

In this case, the five men took 27 heads and 15 walrus calves.

“I don’t want the message to be, ‘If I’m a hunter and I had a felony and I’m out for walrus, I get a pass,’” the judge told the court. “The message should be to villagers and people in Anchorage, ‘If you have a prior felony that precludes you from having a weapon, you shouldn’t have a weapon.’”

January 14, 2005

New report on Alaskan natives

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

A report, called “Our Choice, Our Future” concludes that at least three areas needed to be addressed for Alaska natives: improving public education, addressing health issues, creating jobs and lowering the cost of living.

The report, issued last Friday, provides a wide-ranging look at Alaska natives, including how its indigenous people are doing in areas of population, health, economics and education.

This report analyzes the Status of Alaska Natives Report 2004, which polled 139,000 natives in Alaska.

Also among the findings:

• Smoking among native teenagers has dropped since 1995, but is still more than three times the rate among non-native teens;
• The number of natives who are college graduates tripled between 1980 and 2000, but they are still 50 per cent less likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than a non-native;
• the rate of home ownership among natives has dropped from 77 percent in 1960 to 59 percent in 2000, while for non-natives the trend was reversed.

The report and background materials are available online at www.firstalaskans.org/495.cfm.

January 14, 2005

Earthquakes hit north Iceland and Antarctica

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

There were two earthquakes in the ocean off the north coast of Iceland last week. The second earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and residents of Grimsey Island, Husavik and Akureyri felt the earth move.

An earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale also hit a chain of remote Antarctic islands, home to 850,000 King penguins. It was the strongest earthquake in four years.

Penguins appear to have escaped a major disaster as the quake occurred deep under the sea. There were no tsunamis because the quake moved horizontally rather than vertically.

A seismologist said that if the earthquake had happened beneath a city, it would probably have leveled buildings.

January 14, 2005

Icebergs return to New Zealand

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

Icebergs have been spotted in New Zealand waters for the first time in 56 years, with some of them as wide as three kilometres. The icebergs appeared to have been generated by the breakup of ice shelves in the Antarctic and are expected to drift towards South America, posing a danger to maritime traffic in the area.

Icebergs were last sighted in New Zealand waters in 1948.

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