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Baffin
Island - |
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Iqaluit
- Sitting at the head of Frobisher Bay. First seen by Europeans in 1576
by; Martin Frobisher who mistook it for a the beginning of the NW Passage
and the iron pyrites for gold. |
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Iqaluit - The population
jumped from 1,200 to 3,000 when Iqaluit became the capital of Nunavut in
1999. |
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Hall Peninsula and
the S'ern shore of Cumberland Sound |
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Pangnirtung Fjord
S'ern end of Akshayuk Pass
across the Cumberland Peninsula
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Pangnirtung |
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Pangnirtung Fjord |
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Akshayuk Pass |
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Akshayuk Pass |
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Akshayuk Pass
Mt. Thor ahead on the right.
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Mt. Thor |
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Mt. Asgard |
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Akshaykuk Pass |
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Mt. Asgard |
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Akshaykuk Pass |
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The Arctic Circle
is at 66 deg 43 min N. |
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Akshaykuk Pass |
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Penny Ice Cap |
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Penny Ice Cap |
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North Pangnirtung Fjord
N'ern end of Akshaykuk Pass
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Penny Ice Cap |
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Penny Ice Cap |
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Broughton Island
(Really Qikiqtarjuaq but everyone we met used its old name, Broughton Island) |
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Broughton Island
Initially built to build the
DEW Line. The main employment now is to disassemble DEW Line stations.
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Broughton Island
- Greenland is 240 nmi East |
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Broughton Island
From here until Cambridge Bay,
fuel was arranged by Jeff Mahoney at Air Nunavut in Iqaluit.
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island
This small boat was picking
up Akshayuk Pass hikers.
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Broughton Island
Fueling through a chamois is
surprisingly slow. After taking 2 hrs we departed the 533 nm leg to Pond
Inlet.
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After relaying our
position report to Arctic Radio, a FirstAir pilot said he had just left
Pond Inlet. "It was clear, but the sea fog was hovering offshore." |
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Knowing that the
forecast was for the light wind to shift to the NE we turned around to spend
the night at Broughton Island. |
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island
Seal skins.
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island |
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Broughton Island |
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Later a Canadian Airline helo
crew, lead by Bert Barr (L), arrived with a radar technician - and soon
the talk turned to polar bears.
"One day we
were running bit late putting the aircraft to bed and the engineer told
the copilot and me to go ahead to the hotel and save him a dinner serving.
After dinner we noticed
he hadn't arrived to we took a walk back up to the aircraft. There he
was on top of the rotors, yelling his head off, with two young polar bears
trying to figure out how to climb up the aircraft."
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The next day's forecast was
great. Early fog lifting then light S'ly winds all day.
Just N of Broughton Island
with Penny Icecap in the distance.
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Narpaning Fjord
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Baffin Island |
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Clyde River is just this to
the left of that mountain. (Black Bluff)
Too much fog for us to stop.
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Map of Cape Christian,
Clyde River and the Swindon Mountains |
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Ayr Lake |
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Glacier feeding
Ayr Lake |
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Barnes Ice Cap in
the far distance |
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Eglington Fjord |
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Eglington Fjord |
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Eglington
Fjord |
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Remote
Peninsula |
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Sam Ford Fjord |
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Remote Peninsula |
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John Lohr
(I think this is where he said,
"Pat we're not in Kansas any more.)
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Walker Arm
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Sillern Island |
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Sillern Island |
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Remote Mountains |
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Remote Mountains |
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Dexterity Fjord |
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Buchan Gulf |
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Cambridge Fjord |
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Cambridge Fjord |
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Cambridge Fjord |
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Buchan Gulf |
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Buchan Gulf |
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North Arm |
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Pond Inlet
Across the inlet are the mountains
of Bylot Island, a Canadian Wildlife Refuge.
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Pond Inlet
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Pond Inlet |
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Pond Inlet |
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Pond Inlet & Bylot Island
Robert Bylot was
a member of Henry Hudson's mutinous crew in 1610. He received a pardon
for sailing the ship back to England and returned four more times. In
1616 his pilot was William Baffin.
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Self Serve at $8.47 US /gal
(It was well worth it.)
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A boat builder's project behind
the hotel.
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Pond Inlet
Waterfront property in the
Arctic
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Nanisivik
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Brodeur Peninsula
W'ern Baffin Island between
Admiralty Inlet and Prince Regent Inlet
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Columbus was wrong.
Backup GPS showing we're approaching
the edge.
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Resolute
Bay |