A New Age of Exploration (the final blog) There was a geologist named Marie Tharp who was one of the most important people in the discovery of plate tectonics. She gets almost no credit today because she was a woman at a time
Read moreI hear the leaves are starting to change color back in Annapolis. There are no trees in Greenland (except the far south) but it is starting to get dark at night. The darkness brings the cold and it’s not uncommon to wake up in the morning and have ice on the...
Read moreTrying to find a good place to anchor in fjords near active glaciers is always interesting. Like usual there are no soundings so you have no idea where the deep and shallow areas are. Although it’s deep almost everywhere, right up to the rocky shore, so finding a good...
Read moreCaptain Matt and I are waiting out some stronger winds before heading back South to Sismut and finishing our work along the way. We are pretty comfortable on anchor hiding on the leeward side of Upernavik Island. Soon we will fuel up and get some food from a food...
Read moreI doubt any other culture has had to constantly deal with the threat of starvation like the traditional Inuit did. You would think that the cold would be their number one adversary, but it wasn’t the cold it was food. 10,000 years of starvation changed their culture in ways...
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