Upernavik
to
Melville Bay

on the way to Upernavik Kujalleq

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq, habour

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq

 

 

fog, view south

 

 

 

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq, campside outside town

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq, local girls playing on the beach

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq

 

 

Upernavik Kujalleq

 

 

The village Prøven

 

 

Prøven

 

 

Prøven

 

 

Prøven

 

 

Upernavik district landscape

 

 

Agpat, 540m

 

 

Agpat, 540m

 

 

 

 

 

"Sortehullet" - "The Black Hole"

 

 

In nice style trough the "The Black Hole"

 

 

Looking for a place to sleep

 

 

steep moutains all over

 

 

a place to sleep!

 

 

 

 

 

 

grilling

 

 

the camp down on the right side

 

 

camp surroundings

 

 

 

 

 

Pedikularis - or something...

 

 

evening walk

 

 

night care

 

 

further North

 

 

Upernavik City, the habour

 

 

Upernavik graveyard. "Navarana's" grave - Peter Freuchens wife. Polar History...

 

 

Upernavik church

 

 

Upernavik

 

 

Upernavik detail

 

 

Upernavik detail

 

 

further North

 

 

Innarsuit

 

 

Innarsuit

 

 

further North

 

 

 

 

engine oil change

 

 

Tassiussaq

 

 

Tassiussaq

 

 

Tassiussaq

 

 

 

 

 

Tassiussaq, - East Greenland sled!?

 

 

Tassiussaq habour

 

 

Tassiussaq

 

 

near Tassiussaq

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

further North: our first direct contact with the ice cap

 

 

slow motion through!

 

 

open water again

 

 

camp on the rocks

 

 

camp on the rocks

 

 

 

 

 

evening vist: fishermen from Island and Færøene who collect fish from the locals in a ship

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

camp on the rocks, tent life

 

 

Nuussuaq

 

 

Nuussuaq

 

 

Nuussuaq

 

 

further North

 

 

new "camp on the rocks"

 

 

 

 

 

infinity habour

 

 

arriving Kullorsuaq

 

 

Kullorsuaq

 

 

Kullorsuaq - street walk

 

 

Kullorsuaq - Deavil's Thumb - Store Tommelfingern ...

 

 

... or the Big Dick - as they say in the North?

 

 

Kullorsuaq

 

 

Kullorsuaq: football court

 

 

 

 

 

view from Kullorsuaq

 

 

Kullorsuaq - inside the shop

 

 

Kullorsuaq

 

 

Kullorsuaq, house in fog

 

 

 

 

 

in the streets of Kullorsuaq

 

 

 

 

 

We met THE HUNTER, Jonas Kristensen in Kullorsuaq and got to buy one of his dogs

 

 

Jonas polar bear skinns, Kullorsuaq

 

 

Milalik

 

 

Jonas in his kayak, Kullorsuaq

 

 

Milalik looking North

 

 

Melville Bay, south end

 

 

Melville Bay seen from Kullorsuaq

 

 

leaving Kullorsuaq, heading North into Melville Bay

 

 

 

Kullorsuaq seen from satellite

 

Melville Bay