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Image Not Available for A Canadian soldier stands beside a snow-and-ice-melting device known as an immersion heater, used to generate water supply for washing. In a region where winter temperatures average below -50°C, creating water is an essential part of operating and surviving in the High Arctic. This base camp was set up beside a hangar at the airport in the community of Hall Beach, Nunavut.
A Canadian soldier stands beside a snow-and-ice-melting device known as an immersion heater, used to generate water supply for washing. In a region where winter temperatures average below -50°C, creating water is an essential part of operating and surviving in the High Arctic. This base camp was set up beside a hangar at the airport in the community of Hall Beach, Nunavut.
Image Not Available for A Canadian soldier stands beside a snow-and-ice-melting device known as an immersion heater, used to generate water supply for washing. In a region where winter temperatures average below -50°C, creating water is an essential part of operating and surviving in the High Arctic. This base camp was set up beside a hangar at the airport in the community of Hall Beach, Nunavut.
Artist Louie Palu born 1968

A Canadian soldier stands beside a snow-and-ice-melting device known as an immersion heater, used to generate water supply for washing. In a region where winter temperatures average below -50°C, creating water is an essential part of operating and surviving in the High Arctic. This base camp was set up beside a hangar at the airport in the community of Hall Beach, Nunavut.

Portfolio/SeriesDistant Early Warning
Datebetween 2015 and 2018, printed 2019
Medium/Materialspigment print
Dimensions50.8 × 61 cm (20 × 24 in.)
Credit LineGift of the artist in memory of Fiorina and Giuseppe Palu
Object Number2023.1.21
DepartmentPERMANENT COLLECTION