This is part 2 of Anna Bidgood‘s adventure in the Gardar Province. You can read part 1 here. NARSAQ AND A BREAK! After 3 weeks of mapping we took a boat to Narsaq where we planned to spend 3 days relaxing in the hostel and restocking our food supplies. Narsaq is a town of 1800 people […]
ARRIVING IN IGALIKO AND SETTING UP BASE CAMP We got picked up at Itilleq by a Landrover to transport our tents, food, tables, chairs and gun over to Igaliko. The gun we are carrying is for polar bear protection, however it is rare to get a polar bear this far south, particularly in the summer […]
Richard Bates is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. See his website here. Operation Iceberg – Mapping the Changing face of Arctic Ice Over the past 5 years I have found my summers occupied by research expeditions to the Arctic. The projects began in 2009 with a request from colleagues […]
