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Publié le Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:59 PM
En route vers la Baie Marguerite. En cette semaine de la Saint Valentin nous venons de franchir le cercle polaire antarctique pour rejoindre la Baie Marguerite, ainsi nommée par le Commandant Charcot qui explora la côte ouest de la péninsule antarctique lors de ses deux voyages, avec le Français d'abord, puis avec le Pourquoi Pas. Il nomma la baie par amour pour Marguerite Cléry, sa seconde épouse qui d'emblée accepta les longues absences de l'explorateur et qui même l'accompagna jusqu'à Punta Arenas au Chili lors d'un de ses voyage en Antarctique. |
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Jean-Louis: Publié le Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:03 AM
JANUARY 15. 2011 Wake up call at 6.00 this morning! Yep, we had planned a Polar Circle boat cruise in the Lemaire Channel with our guests. We were all eager to go out as the weather forecast I downloaded the night before called for a sunny day. And there was no surprise: when we launched the boats at 7.00 the sky was blue, the sun already warm and the reflections of the mountains and the icebergs in the sea were just gorgeous. We spread out the boats to take pictures and then came the first call over the VHF radio: seals on an ice floes! |
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Publié le Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:13 PM
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Monday, October 04, 2010 7:10 PM
Bienvenue à Terre-Neuve! Notre voyage à bord du FRAM sur la route des Vikings se poursuit. Après l'Islande que nous avons quittée le 26 septembre, nous avons mis le cap sur l'est et le sud du Groenland. Une météo superbe nous accompagne depuis une semaine et nous avons visité deux villages: d'abord Appillatoq dans le Prinz Christian Sund, une communauté de 130 habitants, vivants chichement -mais manifestement heureux- d'un peu de pêche et de chasse. |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Sunday, October 03, 2010 12:02 AM
Yep, time slips away! My last post was from Iceland, and in the mean time we cruised south-east Greenland and now we are on our way to Canada. East-Greenland was terrific: great weather -yes, its the end of september and its warm and sunny, although we saw some fresh sea ice in the evening - we met nice people in remote settlements like Apilatoq in the Prinz Christian Sund. 130 or so Greenlanders leave here, doing some fishing activities and seal hunting. Other than that there is a school, a church and the typical supermarket. |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Monday, September 27, 2010 9:53 PM
Great! we are now in the Danemark Strait, on our way from Iceland (where we spend 4 days in Reykjavik!) to the east coast of Greenland. Looks like Iceland has recovered from the financial crisis: construction is booming, people seem to spend more money, at least the restaurants in town were pretty crowded and whoa, they like partying :-) Tomorrow we plan a nice Zodiac cruising in Umiivik, a place where Nansen started his first crossing of the icecap! In the next days we have a number of landings in remote communities in south west Greenland before sailing to the Maritime provinces of Canada. |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:13 PM
Yesterday we left Greenlands' east coast! What a great experience! We cruised Kong Oskar Fjord, |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:45 PM
Cet après-midi nous avons fait escale à Scoresbysund -ITTORQOORTORMIIT en groenlandais- un petit village de 450 âmes. Nous sommes arrivés sous un beau soleil, après une traversée du Détroit du Danemark plus qu'agitée avec des vents de force 10 sur l'échelle de Beaufort qui va jusqu'à 12. J'étais à Scoresbysund pour la première fois en 1999, et c'est dans le fjord devant le village que j'ai fais mes premières expériences de pilote de Zodiac, à l'époque avec le Grégory Mikeev. |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Monday, September 13, 2010 9:45 PM
A DAY IN REYKJAVIK Yesterday we were in Isafjordur, in northwestern Iceland, a lovely place nesteled on a peninsula. Early this morning we reached the harbour of Reykjavik, actually its almost in town, just a couple of hundred meters and you are in the old town. I was here a number of times, as early as 1999, and the last time it was in 2005. I visited the cathedral and some other nice places in town, before meeting my collegues for lunch. Quite a number of good restaurants in this town. Tonight, we set sails for Greenlands east coast, and the crossing through the Danemark Strait will be rough, according to the marine weather forecast. So you've better be prepared.Keep you updated :-) |
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Jean-Louis IMBS: Publié le Friday, September 10, 2010 8:40 PM
September 7: This morning we had a landing on Greenlands' east coast, weere we visited and abandoned settlement. Well, it looked like they left in a hurry: oil drums, kitchen ustentsiles, old shoes and boots, even a doll head was left behind. People left the area in the 1960', moving to the bigger settlement of Ammassalik. The place is great, beautiful scenery, good fishing and sealing grounds, and there is evidence of former whaling activity. In the afternoon we were cruising in a beautiful fjord, surrounded by hight mountain pics, huge glaciers and quite a number of icebergs. |
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