Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit ... This means travelling away from their homes, often to much colder areas near sea ice. They use dogsleds to travel across snow and ice.

Another best-known feature of Inuit life is their winter snow house, known as the igloo. Before introducing modern, ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer ...

What about sleeping in an igloo? Well, now you can combine the two, near Greenland's famous Ilulissat Icefjord. Ilulissat is home to some of ... nature like the local Inuit community has for ...

Almost all Inuit live in settled communities in Euro-Canadian style housing. However, the imported construction materials and design of the homes still have not suitable for harsh climate. While ...

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife Two Inuit men in Canadas Far North choose the site cut and place snow blocks and create an entrancea shelter ...

Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

Examples of these include the Styrofoam igloo, the double-walled tent ... The authors argue these homes were also inappropriate for Inuit. Then in 1972, the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation ...