Ipirvik

Ipirvik at the Smithsonian, c. 1873

Ipirvik (Inuktitut: ᐃᐱᕐᕕᒃ, often transliterated as Ebierbing; c. 1837c. 1881) was an Inuk guide and explorer who assisted several Arctic explorers, among them Charles Francis Hall and Frederick Schwatka.[1] He and his wife Taqulittuq were the best-known and most widely-travelled Inuit in the 1860s and 1870s.

  1. ^ Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders (2022). "Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik". The Historical Journal. 66: 122–140. doi:10.1017/S0018246X22000139. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 251662473.