Daily Archives: September 10, 2010
The Noorderlicht starts its voyage
Video by Matt Wainright
First night and second day
Comfortably cruising aboard the Noorderlicht through the blue of an Arctic high pressure system. Cold and clear we go between Western Spitsbergen Island and Prins Karls Forland Island due north through the Forland Sundet. We have had our early day[…..]
Expectation and Reality
Left Canada a few days ago to come to this remarkably remote place at 78 degrees north to join Cape Farewell’s global Climate/Culture Expedition. A group of 20 scientists, writers, visual artists and musicians; a delightfully odd collection of souls[…..]
Dispatches from the 78th Parallel
As one of twenty of an international crew of writers, artists and scientists participating on the Cape Farewell’s 2010 Arctic expedition, I’m in the midst of sailing up the west coast of the archipelago of islands of Spitsbergen from Longyearbyen,[…..]