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Warehouse 13 Artifact Database Wiki
William Edward Parry's Inukshuk

Origin

William Edward Parry

Type

Pile of rocks

Effects

Releases blizzards that can cryogenically freeze living organisms for up to an hour before they die of hypothermia.

Downsides

Effects

Activation

Exposure to air

Collected by

Warehouse 12 Agents

Section

Martel-394S

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Origin[]

This man-made structure was once owned by English explorer Sir William Edward Parry. His 1819 voyage through the Parry Channel was probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. On this expedition, Parry attempted to reach the Lancaster Sound without going around Baffin Bay. However, his ship was blocked by ice and Parry and his crew were forced to spend the next ten months anchored in a place Parry called Winter Harbor where temperatures dropped to -54°F. In 1827 he attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole.

Effects[]

When exposed to air, the Inukshuk flash freezes the area it is kept in, covering itself in a thick layer of ice. Living organisms trapped in the flash freeze are cryogenically frozen and can survive for up to an hour before they die of hypothermia. The time it takes a person to freeze to death can be slowed with Albert Butz's Glasses.