Arctic Travels

NORWAY | Sunday, 23 November 2014 | Views [298] | View Smaller Image

Welcome to Ny London. Once a marble mine financed by floating it on the London stock exchange, the wilderness here left rich families bankrupt and empty handed as the arctic permafrost reduced the marble to dust once mined. All that is left here now are remnants of machinery and a scattering of personal items over the landscape.

A few years back you couldn't see these mountains. In bays such as this, where carvings are so frequent the sound is deafening and the glacial wall is blue from all the new chunks of ice breaking free that it becomes easy to see how small they are getting. Slowly moving along, with the pop and crackle of ice around us, the ruts in the hill side speak of how much height and length has been lost from the glacier.

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In the expanse of the archipelago, Walrus' are often only seen tightly huddled together in a pack, barely raising a flipper or tusk. When they separate from the pack though they are a joy to watch. These 2 eventually came to us as the first slowly rolled down the embankment one after each other, yelping and flipping at each other to move or follow along, wiggling in the warm stones, until both were in the water and swimming our way.

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