A summer sail through the essentially ice-free Northwest Passage to find the remnants of the doomed Franklin Expedition. Then off to Western Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, and ending in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today, we made our final stop before disembarking in Halifax — Corner Brook. It’s on the west coast of Newfoundland and is located in the Bay of Islands at the mouth of the Humber River — one of the “arms” that make up…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we made our first landing below the Arctic Circle — Red Bay, Labrador, and things are both the same and different. Similar to what we’ve seen above the Arctic Circle, this area is still pretty bleak with largely a barren landscape made…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we arrived in Sisimiut, the second largest city in Greenland. Sisimiut translates to “where the foxholes are” — apparently when the town was being expanded, there were foxholes all over the place. Not sure what the story is today. Anyway the population…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we visited Ilulissat, Greenland’s most famous town and the third largest by population with 4500 people. Of course, as long as we are examining population, I should mention that there are also 2500 sled dogs. These dogs are used by fishermen in…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today, we traversed the Navy Board Inlet, a body of water that separates Bylot Island and Baffin Island. It was an absolutely beautiful transit with high mountains and glaciers on both sides. People just sat by the windows all day staring at the…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we found ice again — in a big way! Croker Bay is a fjord on the south coast of Devon Island on the Lancaster Sound. The island itself was named by William Baffin in 1616 for Devon shire in England. It has…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today was a busy day! We started at about 6:00 am doing a slow pass by Leopold Island, situated in Lancaster Sound. Most of this island rises steeply from the sea, with cliffs as high as 1000 feet! The cliffs are made of…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Sea days provide an opportunity to learn through lectures, create art of different media, and perhaps help conduct some experiments. In the Science Lab today, we got to look at the water samples we had collected two days earlier to see what we…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we visited Gjoa Haven, named after the ship that Roald Amundsen made the first successful trip across the Northwest Passage. Interestingly, the Inuit name for this community is Uqsuqtuuq which means “lots of fat” — which refers to the abundance of sea…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 After a beautiful, sunny day yesterday, it was inevitable that today had to be cloudy, rainy, and rough. Today we are visiting Borge Island, a small (just over a mile square) and largely flat island. It was named by Raoul Amundsen after the…
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