Canada investigates mysterious 'pinging' sound at bottom of sea in Arctic

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I decided to put this story here because it affects the Arctic.
It could be anything, Of-Course I'm Hoping it's a UFO Base Being Turn On and Going Active.
Or maybe some Alien at the Bottom of the sea pressed a button and forgot to unpress it.

Or maybe it's a Russian Submarine Saying Look At Us we're where You never Expected us! 

Or is it just a Lonely Whale?

Canada's military is investigating a mysterious "pinging" that is emanating from the sea floor in the Arctic.
The sound, which has also been described as a "hum" or a "beep", has apparently spooked the local wildlife in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
Paul Quassa, a member of the legislative assembly, said the noise was "emanating from the sea floor".
"That's one of the major hunting areas in the summer and winter ... And this time around, this summer, there were hardly any. And this became a suspicious thing."

The military said it was investigating what was causing the sound. 
"The Department of National Defence has been informed of the strange noises emanating in the Fury and Hecla Strait area, and the Canadian Armed Forces are taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation," an armed forces spokesperson told CBC News.

Department of National Defence internal correspondence suggested submarines were not considered a likely source of the noise but had not the been ruled out, the broadcaster said.

Internal correspondence between sources in the Department of National Defence, obtained by CBC News, suggest submarines were not immediately ruled out, but were also not considered a likely cause. 

George Qulaut, another member of the legislative assembly, said he also noticed the lack of wildlife.
"That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area," he told CBC News, recalling his own days of hunting there. 
"This summer there was none."

The pinging has prompted much speculation. Some have blamed Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, which has previously conducted sonar surveys of nearby. However, the company said  it was not conducting any surveys in the area, and had no equipment in the water, CBC News reported.

Others have suggested Greenpeace might have caused the sound to scare wildlife away from the rich hunting ground, an allegation the environmental group denied.  

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Here's another article about this noise.

Kraken-watchers, take note: The Canadian military is investigating a strange pinging noise emanating from the sea floor near a remote outpost in the Arctic.
According to CBC News, the members of the isolated community in Igloolik, Nunavut have been hearing a noise over the summer that has no identifiable cause. Consequently, the Canadian Armed Forces are “taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation.”

The noise – which has been confusingly described as a “ping”, “hum”, and “beep” – has been heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait, roughly 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Igloolik, for several months now.

The sparsely populated region is known to be populated by plenty of sea mammals in warmer times, and they are often hunted by local Inuit. These hunters have been picking up the ominous sounds for a while now, and they have pointed out that they appear to be scaring the wildlife away from the area.
People visiting the area on private yachts have also reportedly heard the mysterious pinging. Apparently, it can be heard not just by those close to the surface of the water, but through the hull of boats as well.
CBC News note that their reporters have yet to hear the noise themselves, and have not received any additional information from those that have claimed to have hear it. Nevertheless, it will come as no surprise that multiple theories relating to the origin of the noise have sprung up in the wake of the initial reports.

One is that the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is to blame. Although it has conducted plenty of sonar surveys in the region as of late – which ecological activists say may be confusing local whale and narwhal populations – the company said that they haven’t been doing so this summer.

In fact, the local government has said that they haven’t issued any territorial permits to any company or group for any construction or hydrographic work to be conducted in the region.
Some have suggested that Greenpeace might be deploying underwater sonar emitters in order to scare aquatic life away, primarily so that the Inuit cannot harm them during their hunts. A spokesperson for the group denied this accusation to CBC News, noting that they respect the right of the Inuit to engage in such hunting.

The Department of National Defence notes that although submarines passing through the area haven’t been ruled out, it’s very unlikely that they are to blame. Igloolik, however, is just 70 kilometers (43 miles) away from an active military base, so if secret military experiments are your favorite type of conspiracy theory, then there’s certainly something to latch on to.

For now, the noise remains unexplained. It's probably not Cthulhu, though.

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OH and to continue on the Arctic, This may interest you a little my fellow Rogues.

Russian scientists unearth remains of secret Nazi Arctic base

Yes that's the Title.

Fragment of signal cartridge box found at the site on Alexandra Land island 

Scientists at the Russian Arctic National Park have unearthed the remains of a secret Nazi base on the remote island of Alexandra Land that was abandoned during the latter stages of World War II.

Due to this year’s warm Arctic summer, experts could fully explore the ground where the military weather station was located, finding more than 600 items.
“These artifacts unmistakably advise about the German identity of the station, and also suggest that its designation was both military and meteorological,” explained a spokeswoman for the Russian Arctic National Park, in an email to FoxNews.com.

Researchers found German mines, hand grenade fragments, cartridge boxes, cartridges for Mauser 98 rifles and boxes for MG-34 submachine gun feed belts. Parts of uniforms, overcoats, underwear, socks, and pieces of footwear, were also discovered, as well as sacks bearing the label of the German army.

The site of the secret Nazi weather station on Alexandra Land island (Yulia Petrova).

Scientific items found include pieces of weather balloons, thermometers, astronomic tables, journals with meteorological data and textbooks on meteorology stamped with the seal of Germany’s Navy. Books of fiction such as “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” were discovered, as well as packages for food and even toothpaste.

The German weather station Schatzgräber (Treasure Hunter) was located on Alexandra Land, an island in the Franz Josef Land archipelago, from September 1943 to July 1944, during which time it sent more than 700 meteorological reports. Military personnel at the weather station fell ill after eating polar bear meat contaminated with roundworms, forcing the base’s evacuation in 1944.

“The station was called ‘secret’ because during the Second World War its existence was unknown in the USSR,” the Russian National Park Service spokeswoman told FoxNews.com, noting that the abandoned station was spotted during an airborne survey of the area in 1947. “Starting from 1952, Soviet polar explorers were living there, waiting for the opening of a new weather station. In 1956, the German station was destroyed,” it added.

Soviet polar explorers living on the island were aware of the site, as were military personnel and border guards. A research fellow from the Russian Arctic National Park began reconnaissance of the former weather station and the abandoned items in 2012, with a more detailed analysis undertaken this year.

The artifacts have been taken to the park’s office in Archangelsk, where they will be studied before becoming part of an exhibition at the Russian Arctic National Park museum.

A topographical plan of the Alexandra Land site was also drawn up this year to show the base’s destroyed building, its meteorological facility and network of defensive structures.

Foundations near the site of the weather station on Alexandra Land island (Yulia Petrova).

“The work is not finished yet, some surface material which is of value for historians still remains untouched,” explained the Russian Arctic National Park spokeswoman, “Besides, it is necessary to study activities of the Germans in the archipelago in more detail. It will be necessary to contact German archives for this purpose.”

The Arctic was a key supply route for Allied Naval convoys during World War II. Laden with supplies and military equipment, the convoys sailed from the U.K and Iceland to northern ports in the Soviet Union such as Archangelsk and Murmansk.

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DAMN, No Secret UFO Base! 

[Mystic Wanderer]

DAMN, No Secret UFO Base! 

Well, Darn it all!  

[guohua]

DAMN, No Secret UFO Base! 

Well, Darn it all!  

No, BUT! What if the UFO that was above the Arctic now resides under the ice?