Category: Greenland

  • Scoresby Sund and Ittoqqortoormitt 16/08/14

    Overnight and this morning the ship sailed further down the east coast of Greenland and entered Scoresby Sund, the largest fjord system in the world covering about 38,000 sq kilometers and whose arms at times extend about 350 kilometres inland from the coast.We will be visiting the Innuit village of Ittoqqortoormitt a hunting community perched…

  • Greenland and at sea 15/08/14

    Arrived this morning in Kejser Franz-Josepph Fjord, East Greenland  and we have sailed from 80 degrees North at the top of Spitsbergen to 73 degrees North at our present location. Because we are 7 degrees farther south we are once again seeing sunsets at about 11:30 pm and sunrise at about 3:30 am.The intercom went…

  • At sea 14/08/14

    Sailing through the Greenland Sea. Very relaxing day capped by a special Chef’s dinner. 6 course dinner and wines to match; after a day of relative inactivity, more than we wanted to face but we soldiered through it.

  • At sea 13/08/14

    We were expecting to cross the Greenland Sea today and arrive at our destination in Greenland tomorrow afternoon but when we looked at the chart of our progress on the tv in our cabin, we had sailed for a considerable distance during the night but had then doubled back on our track and taken a…