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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Oct 6, 2008
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We’ve spent the morning popping in and out of the restaurant for a read through of Paradise Lost – everyone read a few lines. Not looked at the text for more than a decade but feels the natural thing to do here and now as we sail south back to port. A couple of my posts have referred to...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Oct 4, 2008
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The Argo buoy is launched – might seem banal to scientists, but it really helps the rest of us to visualise science as a practice rather than a set of reported results. Think the winning entry for naming it was ‘Disko(very) Bob’, crafted by Jarvis Cocker.
Climate change is just one...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 28, 2008
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Stop in Qeqertarsuaq (Big Island) on Disko island for walks to warm springs (1 to 6 degrees? – warm a relative concept), and a chance to walk in the town and surrounding hills and black basalt beaches. There are a couple of Greenlanders with us as guides throughout the trip, Karin and Ludovik....... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 28, 2008
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Joe Smiths daily post - the last three days:
Friday
Musk ox burgers are one of the faster moving offers in the Kangerlussuaq airport café. A butchered deer and freshly shot Arctic hare were piled in the back of a pick up on the quay. The closest we’ve got to fauna and a good reminder of...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 27, 2008
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By and by we get the images over the satellite system to the blog. Some more images of our first steps towards Disko Bay.
Small boat transfer.
Boarding the Grigory Mikheev.
For more images…
Luggage chaos.
Dave Smith
Joe Smith and Suzane-Lori Park...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 26, 2008
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The trip towards our boat - the Grigory Mikheev - had it’s delays and hours of waiting at the airport but finally Greenland was reached and first trips in the zodiac were to be faced…
Martha Wainwright, Reykjavik Airport. Early morning and last minute emails are on the...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 22, 2008
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After much preparation we’re finally counting down the last days before we board the Grigory Mikheev in Kangerlussuaq. For twelve days - from Thursday 25 Sept to Monday 6 Oct - you’ll be able to follow the voyage in blogs from over 40 artists, musicians and scientists . We’ll...... [view]
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Posted By: capefarewell
Posted On: Sep 25, 2008
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Later today I’ll travel with a group of musicians and other artists and a team of scientists to the west coast of Greenland. The Cape Farewell project has been taking creative people to the Arctic since 2004, and this trip has a particular emphasis on musicians (the crew list reads like a CD...... [view]
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