Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, we are back from our arctic trip (thanks in part to my cousin Philip the travel agent) and have had a bit of time to look at some of the photos. We went from August 20 to August 28 inclusive, from Resolute on Cornwallis Island (approx. 75?N) to Cambridge Bay (approx. 69?N). Temperatures were about 2?C ?2? the whole time, but often with a fierce wind. Dressing warmly was adviseable. The trip was with OneOcean Expeditions, which charters Russian research vessels; in our case the Akademik Ioffe. A Finnish built, Russian owned and manned vessel chartered to a Canadian company operating out of Squamish, BC. They do various trips into the Arctic and Antarctic with mainly two identical ships. After our trip, I have only praise for the whole operation. The Russian crew was professional in all the best possible ways, the OneOcean staff were extremely knowledgeable and helpful (staff were mostly Canadian with some other nationalities represented) and the ship was perfectly suitable for this trip. Strengthened for ice, extremely quiet and vibration free diesel engines and electric thrusters for 'sneaking up on polar bears', if a 6000ton ship can sneak up on anything. The sister ship to this one was the base of operations two years ago when the first of Sir John Franklin's ships, the Erebus was found after 165 years in Queen Maud Sound in 11m of water. A week after we came home the second ship, the Terror, was found a bit further North by essentially the same group, but not using the same ship since it was still carrying tourists. So. Here are the first pictures. All pictures in this album are from the trip; more to come. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/Arctic/?g2_page=1 Henning Wulff hjwulff at gmail.com