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Travel

Appreciating the wonders of Alaska’s epic wilderness with George Kourounis

The RCGS Explorer-in-Residence shares his experience travelling through Alaska with Cunard

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  • 4 minutes

Travel

Reflections of an explorer

Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth discusses her time aboard Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth to Alaska

  • 315 words
  • 2 minutes

Exploration

Surviving the Race to Alaska

This motor-free ocean race — with vessels ranging from paddleboards to pedal-assist sailboats — is less about how fast you can go and more about whether you get there at all

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  • 15 minutes
University at Buffalo PhD candidate Alia Lesnek at a sampling site on Suemez Island. Photo: Jason Briner

People & Culture

First North American peoples may have arrived by sea, study finds

Researchers studying the history of ice sheets around northern British Columbia found that a coastal migration route may have been a pathway to North America 

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  • 2 minutes
Rosalynn Carter, Arthur Milnes, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and RCGS CEO John Geiger

People & Culture

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter awarded Lawrence J. Burpee medal

Medal honours the former President's role in expanding the U.S. national parks system and work with Habitat for Humanity

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  • 2 minutes