What I have learned so far
Listen Ocean waves & wind – sound recording, 1:05 Sunday September 12th, 2010 Today is my 38th birthday. It’s been a strange and melancholy one for me. We came upon a glacier, which was massive in width and strangely variable[…..]
Daily life in the North
The Moon
Video by Matt Wainwright.
Blogging is a Relative Thing
We’ve been at sea for five days now and the trend has been to have an adventure at shore in the morning and return to the Noorderlicht for lunch by 1:30. The afternoons are spent sailing and ‘blogging.’ It’s a[…..]
Bearings
Muffin Island, 80⁰N. We’re so close to the magnetic north pole that compasses won’t work. This is a place of lost bearings, and it seems right somehow that all our qualities of movement are different here. Out in open water[…..]
350 from the Arctic to the Atmosphere
On the frozen shores of Ny-Alesund the icebergs wash ashore even in the height of summer. The summer population swells to 130 people and the sun never dips below the jagged mountains. Now, as September turns the days shorter the[…..]
Hoelfhalveys, 79 degrees 60’ North 11.5 degrees East
SVALBARD. The cold coast – the mythical home of the Snow Queen’s palace in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of “The Snow Queen”. For long this was a land beyond the realm of maps, an imagined fantastical place of such purity[…..]
Scurvy Grass
There are no trees this far north. The long winters erase all things that bold. The birds flee with the sun, the bears burrow and the reindeer wander white through the wide darkness. Then summer rises again and refuses to[…..]
Arctic Notes: 09/14/10
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes Yesterday we visited Magdelene Fjord and checked out Gullybryn Glacier. It was a[…..]
Weather station
German science station in Longyearbyen. Interviewed is J.G.Raeser of the science station. Video by Matt Wainwright
