CECILIA CLARK P HOTOGRAPHY

Columnar Basalt at Disko Island Disko Island is the youngest area in Greenland. The rest of Greenland is billions of years old. Basalt lava flowed here only about 60 million years ago when North America and Europe separated. Columnar structures occur when the lava rapidly cools and contracts to create polygonal basalt columns. Despite the roughness of the sea, we cruised around in zodiacs to get a closer look at the basalt structures. In the afternoon we visited the small cit

The next morning, August 10, the plan for the day had changed. A passenger was having a medical emergency and needed to get back to a...

Brother John's Glacier at the head of Foulke Fjord Still heading north, the ship stopped in Foulke Fjord. When we arrived it was very overcast, but the afternoon brought brilliant sunlight and a better view of the fjord. Etah lies on the 4,500 year old ancient migration route fork. waves of hunter/gatherer people traveling from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. Etah was the point where the last migration of Inuit from Baffin Island crossed the Nares Strait at Ellesmere Islan

Savissivik About 10,000 years ago a portion of a 100 tonne (220,500 pound) iron-rich meteorite (estimated weight before it exploded) landed on Meteorite Island. The meteor is known as the Cape York Meteorite; pieces of the meteorite are housed at many museums including the American Museum of Natural History. The Inuit discovered the metal and began breaking off pieces using hammerstones, then shaping the fragments into blades, harpoon tips, and other tools by grinding and po

Perlerfiup Sermia (glacier) Morning brought clouds, fog, and thunder. We were in Perlerfiup Fjord near the glacier of the same name. The glacier thundered, creaked, and rumbled as it adjusted itself. Streams of water exploded out over the rocks and below the ice. The glacier at 609 metres (1,998 feet) high flows from the Greenland ice cap. It is very impressive and a little daunting to be so close to something so cold and powerful. We cruised toward the glacier in a zodiac