Greenland, 2023
In 2023, I took a cruise to Greenland, on Seabourn. We went out on Zodiacs every day and landed on some little islands on some days.
001-023 Icebergs
024-040 Sea Ice
027-029 Landing on a piece of sea ice
041 Black Ice
042-047 Glacier
050-054 Skjoldungen Fjord. Landed on an uninhabited island for a hike. There were no established trails. Not much elevation gain, but the ground was springy. Each time you put your foot down, it would sind down a few inches before you got to solid ground. In some places your foot would sink into a hole filled with water. The crew were keeping watch with flare guns and rifles for Polar Bears. You had to walk in groups, not alone. If you wanted to stop the hike and turn back you had to do it in a group, accompanied by a crew member with a rifle.
055-057 Uunartoq Island. A mostly uninhabited island with a few structures used for drying seal skin. The island has 3 natural springs. Locals from neighboring islands come here to use the hot springs. Someone even built 2 changing cabins. 1 mile roundtrip hike from the zodiac landing site to the hot springs.
058-064 Hvalsey Church, a catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey, now modern day Qaqortoq. The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland. The church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenland Norse, a wedding in September 1408.
065-074 Itilleq, a small settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 2 km north of the Arctic Circle.
075-092 Brattahlid
075-078 remains of Eric the Red’s settlement
080-083 reconstruction of Thorhildur’s first Christian chapel of the Americas
084-090 replica of a Norse longhouse with museum
093-098 Aappilattoq
099-106 Qaqortok
107-117 Nuuk
107 Mother of the Sea sculpture. Myth about getting mad at the Inuit and taking all the animals they hunt to the bottom of the sea
108 Sculpture of the orphan boy Kaassassuk. Myth of an orphan boy who was treated badly and was sometimes hung up by his nostrils as punished, causing him to develop large nostrils.
118-122 Paamiut
123 Arctic Fox
