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Day 3: Qeqertarsuaq 25 August– The Disko Island with Polka Dancers This morning we stepped foot on the pier of Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Godhavn, located on the South coast of Disko Island. Although it was a bit chilly at first, the sun got stronger with the hour creating ideal conditions for the hikers as well as the guests exploring the town. But first we all went to the community centre to join a Kaffemik. The locals offered us cake and coffee before the local dance group offered us a performance. Page 10 From the Voyage Log Lynda was wearing her colourful kamik made of seal skin and created by her mother-in-law. Over her shoulders, she carried the nuilarmiut made of hundreds of colourful glass beats moving with the rhythm of the © Renato Granieri Photography music. Her partner Jakob as well as other man were dressed in the more simple costume for men with black pants and kamik and a white long leaved shirt. It was impressive to watch the pairs spinning faster and faster. Then it was our turn and some of us found themselves dancing on the floor. Afterwards we started hiking and climed the nearby ridge to enjoy a fantastic view over the ocean. Back on board we set sail towards our next destination, Eqip Sermia, and our hotel crew spoiled us with a tasty BBQ on the back deck. After a relaxing break Ursula gave an introduction to marine mammals and the humpback whale. She explained how they evolved from a land living mammal and that engineers work on a new design for airplane and windmill wings based on humpback flippers with unique humps along the edges. At the end Ursula presented her life-sized humpback whales; a year-old of 8.5 m and a tiny new-born of 4.5 m. They gave a real impression of how big the adults of up to 16 m are. Ursula produces these mock-ups for education as part of her project 1:1 with animals. © Renato Granieri Photography Next Jakob shared his knowledge on the history and culture of Disko Bay. He is a descendant of the Thule people who lived from 200 BC to 1600 AD and were followed by the Inuits of today. Beside Western Eskimo and Eastern Eskimo a third language not understandable to the others exists and is named Aleut. Jakob also explained that Disko Bay was “discovered” in 985 AD by Eric the Red and followed by whalers and traders. To date traces of the Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule Eskimos can be found at various sites. During the afternoon the Ocean Atlantic sailed through the fjord to reach our evening destination, Eqip Sermia. The impressive glacier offered the ideal scenery for our polar plunge as six brave guests and one staff member took on the challenge, watched and cheered by the others. Finally another day filled with very diverse and unique experiences came to an end with a glass of mulled wine served on the top deck. © Renato Granieri Photography 23-28 August, 2019 Volume 1, Issue 13
Ice is Nice – Glacier Fun Facts Gaby Pilson, Hiking Master & Expedition Guide Page 11 Glaciers have, quite literally, shaped our world. Without glaciers, the rolling hills and wide valleys we know today would look very different, but it turns out that these icy giants have a much longer and more storied history than many of us would initially suspect. Here are some of the best fun facts about glaciers: 2 4 © Renato Granieri Photography Glaciers are formed by snowflakes. Although it’s crazy to think that a tiny snowflake can create something as large as a glacier, without snow, glaciers would never exist in the first place. To form a glacier, massive amounts of snow must accumulate and persist in a single location all year-long for hundreds, if not thousands of years. During this time, the individual snowflakes found in the snowpack change in a process known as snowflake metamorphosis, where individual ice grains fuse together and get bigger and air bubbles get smaller. Once the icepack builds up enough mass to start flowing downhill, then voila! We have a glacier. © Renato Granieri Photography 1 3 Not just anything can be a glacier. In fact, there’s a size requirement that a piece of ice has to meet to become a glacier. Anything considered a glacier must be at least 0.1 km 2 (nearly 25 acres) in area to be worthy of the name. Although there’s a minimum size requirement to be considered a glacier, there’s no upper limit to glacierhood. The longest glacier on earth is the Lambert Glacier of Antarctica, which measures out to some 434 km (270 mi) long. The world’s largest non-polar glacier is the Fedchenko Glacier of Tajikistan, which measures a respectable 77km (48mi) long. © Renato Granieri Photography Glaciers are found all over the world, not just in the polar regions. While the majority of glaciers and glacial ice is concentrated in high northern and southern latitudes, glaciers are found even near the equator, such as on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and in the mountains of Ecuador. That being said, about half of the world’s 200,000 glaciers are found in one place: Alaska. There, glaciers cover a whopping 72,500 km 2 (28,000 mi 2 ) of the US state’s total area. That’s a lot of ice. Glaciers are basically really, really, really slow-moving rivers. To be considered a glacier, a large mass of ice must be physically moving downhill. This movement downhill is driven by gravity and is the main reason why glaciers also act as major agents of erosion. Since glaciers move downhill, they often remove and transport large boulders and chunks of rock, depositing them much further downhill then where they started. 23-28 August, 2019 Volume 1, Issue 13
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS The Voyage By the
Page 5 and 6: By the Numbers… Page 5 Voyage Sta
Page 7 and 8: The Seven Sisters of Szczecin David
Page 9: What Makes an Expedition Guide? Bri
Page 13 and 14: Through the Lens Gaby Pilson, Hikin
Page 15 and 16: Becoming an Expedition Guide Greger
Page 17 and 18: A Brief History of the Zodiac Steve

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