Students on Ice 2011 Arctic Expedition

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The "Students on Ice 2011" group in the Torngats Mountains (Labrador)

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  • Following the Vikings. The expedition follows the route that the Vikings followed in the 10th century to become the first westerners to set foot in North America.
  • The great fault line at Thingvellir - where the geological plates of North-America and Europe are slowly tearing apart.
  • SOI at the place where the
  • All geysers in the world owe their name to Geysir in Iceland, a place with colorful hot springs, warm streams, and mineral formations. The Strokkur geyser sprays water at a height of 20m every 3 minutes.
  • One of the magnificent sights in Iceland.
  • Boarding of the Clipper Adventurer in the harbor of Siglufjordur (Iceland).
  • Black-legged Kittiwake and its offspring.
  • Isabelle Du Four animates a workshop on the Polar Regions and climate change.
  • The sea ice slows the progression towards the fjords of Greenland.
  • These blue whales are a little curious.
  • Passage through the Prins Christians Sund is truly awe-inspiring.
  • Workshop on glaciology at the foot of a glacier.
  • Students and staff on a cruise between the icebergs, with a nice view on a glacier.
  • The ice podium.
  • The map shows the position of the ship at a place where a glacier used to be until 1966. You can see the consequences of climate change with your own eyes.
  • Relaxing in Viking hot springs.
  • You can never grow tired of the icebergs.
  • Nanortalik, an Inuit village in Greenland.
  • The Torngat Mountains Base Camp (Labrador, canada) is a summer base camp and collaboration between Parks Canada and the Nunatsiavut Government. It is used for scientific and educational purposes.
  • Inuit elder plays Inuit drum at campfire.
  • The Clipper Adventurer anchored in the Nachvac Fjord (Labrador, Canada).
  • Baking fresh catched Arctic Char on the beach. Delicious!
  • Rose Island, which is an Inuit grave site with up to 600 Inuit graves. Over 100 graves were excavated by archeologists in the early 70s without Inuit permission. Only in the last 5 years has this injustice begun to be rectified. The remains have been repatriated and re-buried only a while ago.
  • Finally we can see an polar bear!

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