три амудсена
В юности я мечтала стать полярником и дрейфовать на льдине. Я даже написала письмо в Ленинградский университет на океанографический факультет: не помешает ли мне тот факт, что я девица, живу в Москве и совершенно не знаю физики? Вскоре я получила[…..]
SOS
Read more on our day of excitement when the emergency call went out. Continue reading
Welcome to the Arctic
Science
The science on this year’s Cape Farewell has been split into two (linked) sections. We want to build on previous visits to Svalbard (2003,04 and 07) by repeating a cross section through the West Spitsbergen current (part of the extension[…..]
How a boat is like an instrument
Read Ruth’s post on how a boat is like an instrument. Continue reading
Day of adventure
Today was an incredible day of adventure and a little scary at the same time. We began our day exploring an island about 600 miles from the north pole. We got back on the boat to learn that we had[…..]
Kinnvika Bay cont.
From Kinnvika Bay with Deborah Warner. Continue reading
The Romance of Catastrophe
I spent some of this morning slowly reading a terrific book by Francis Spufford, about the polar expeditions, gloriously subtitled ‘Ice and the English imagination’; I read the chapter about the sublime, and, among other things, the romance of catastrophe[…..]
Arctic Notes 5
The Ends of The Earth: 9/17/2010 When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherited with existence in the new[…..]
Pteropods
At last, I had my first encounter with pteropods! This morning, I set off on the dingy with Nina and Aafke to search for them. I did a few plankton net trawls in Murchinson Fjord at Kinnvika Bay and I[…..]
