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IKALUKTUTIAK/CAMBRIDGE BAY
The federal government has rejected an export permit request for the Maud ship-wreck in Cambridge Bay, made by a Norwegian group.

The Maud, under its former name, Baymaud, once belonged to famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

Maud Returns Home, a Norwegian group trying to move the shipwreck to Norway and make it a focal point of a future museum, stated on its website it disagrees with the decision and has launched an appeal to the Canadian Cultural Property Review Board

The group stated it applied for the permit based on Maud's non-listing as an archeological site. It added the group has been informed the Maud is not on the list because it is privately owned.

However, the group stated it not opposed, in principle, to an archeological study, but consider such a study to be of "marginal value."

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