My Greenland Experience: Rounding Cape Farewell
Recorded September 8, 2008.
Cape Farewell is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Greenland. It is the southernmost extent of Greenland, projecting out into the North Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea on the same latitude as Stockholm.
Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically and ethnically an Arctic island country and geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and historically Greenland is associated with Europe, specifically Iceland, Norway, and Denmark. In 1979, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, with a relationship described by the Rigsfællesskabet, and in 2008 Greenland voted to become a separate country within the Kingdom of Denmark, effective June 2009. Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island that is not a continent in its own right, as well as the least densely populated country in the world.
This video shot was board the Sea Princess as we round the southern tip of Greenland on our way to Nanortalik.
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Amazing Grace sung in Nanortalik, Greenland
Amazing Grace sung in Nanortalik, Greenland
My Greenland Experience: Nanortalik
Recorded September 8, 2008.
Nanortalik is the tenth biggest town of Greenland and is located on a small island (also called Nanortalik) roughly 60 miles north of Uummannarsuaq, the southern tip of Greenland. The town has 1564 inhabitants. The name Nanortalik means place of polar bears. Because of its location, this area was one of the first parts of Greenland settled, both by Inuit and by the Norse. Nanortalik was founded in 1770.
The video begins as we sail into Nanortalik's harbour on the Sea Princess. Next I brave the gale force winds which almost aborted our call here and walk around the small village. I visited the well-preserved old historic quarter around the colonial harbor where the Nanortalik Museum is located. Here I captured the local citizens demonstrating life in Greenland. I also visit the Nanortalik Church which is a Danish Lutheran church. The video concludes as I sail away from Greenland during a beautiful sunset.
Background music for the video was by the local Nanortalik choir.
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Transatlantic Cruise
Recorded August 30 - September 13, 2008
Compilation video of my entire Transatlantic Cruise on the Sea Princess includes:
00:24 Southampton, England sailaway
10:25 Sailing in the North Sea
11:34 Captain's Welcome Reception
15:26 Norway's fjords approaching Bergen
21:39 Bergen, Norway
38:51 Shetland Islands, Scotland arrival
46:22 Scalloway, Scotland
57:00 Lerwick, Scotland
1:05:22 The Faroe Islands
1:19:28 Crossing the Artic Circle
1:22:22 Akureyri, Iceland arrival
1:27:20 Goðafoss (Waterfall of the gods)
1:34:54 Námafjall Hverir (Bubbling mud pools)
1:37:56 Mývatn scenic view
1:38:58 Dimmuborgir (lava formations)
1:42:44 Skútustaðir pseudocraters
1:49:47 Akureyri, Iceland
1:50:37 Northern Bottlenosed whales playing in harbour
1:56:24 Akureyri sailaway including polar bear plunge
2:02:45 Reykjavik, Iceland arrival
2:07:07 Þingvellir (rift valley)
2:12:35 Geysir
2:15:48 Gullfoss (Golden Falls)
2:20:04 The Pearl (Reykjavik scenic view)
2:26:04 Approaching Greenland in bad weather
2:36:49 Rounding Cape Farewell (southern tip of Greenland)
2:48:26 Nanortalik, Greenland
3:15:04 St. John's, Newfoundland (an aborted call)
3:18:15 New York City arrival
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A visit to Nanortalik, Greenland during a Transatlantic cruise.
Exploring Tunulliarfik Fjord (Eriksfjord) south Greenland
Exploring Tunulliarfik Fjord (Eriksfjord) with Blue Ice Explorer, south Greenland.
My photo-stream:
Mediterranean & Transatlantic Cruise aboard Sea Princess
Very long complete video of my third cruise in August and September of 2008 on the Sea Princess. This is the longest cruise that I have ever taken, 28 days. The first half of the cruise is in the Mediterranean and the second half is a transatlantic voyage ending in New York City. This video includes all activities on board the ship as well as extensive coverage of my adventures ashore. See the index below for details. Note: This early video was not recorded in HD. It will look best if you reduce the size of the viewer.
00:00:24 My pre-cruise activities in Ireland
00:01:37 Southampton, England sail away
00:10:42 Sea Princess - Two days at sea
00:19:14 Captain's Welcome Reception
00:27:21 Cadiz, Spain sail in
00:32:15 Seville, Spain
00:50:43 Cadiz sail away
00:59:39 Barcelona, Spain sail in
01:08:27 Montserrat shore excursion
01:27:16 Return to Barcelona/La Rambla
01:32:14 Barcelona sail away
01:37:34 Monte Carlo
02:09:55 Florence, Italy
02:25:57 Pisa, Italy
02:31:50 Livorno, Italy sail away
02:37:27 Rome, Italy
02:52:57 Civitavecchia, Italy sail away
03:06:49 Sardinia (Alghero, Italy)
03:37:33 Tropical Island Night Deck Party
03:41:33 Mallorca (Palma, Spain)
04:03:49 Gibraltar sail in
04:10:32 The Rock of Gibraltar
04:28:13 British sail away
04:41:29 International Crew Show
05:07:36 Two days at sea
05:09:43 Champagne waterfall
05:21:00 Southampton, England
05:38:04 Sailing in the North Sea
05:39:23 Captain's Welcome Reception
05:43:05 Norway - Hjeltefjorden Fjord
05:48:52 Bergen, Norway
06:18:32 Lerwick, Scotland (Shetland Islands)
06:50:47 The Faroe Islands (Torshavn)
07:12:05 Crossing the Arctic Circle
07:16:02 Akureyri, Iceland sail in
07:19:35 Northern Iceland shore excursion
07:46:16 Bottlenosed whales playing in harbour
07:47:57 My walk around Akureyri
07:52:51 Akureyri sail away (including polar bear plunge)
08:00:24 Reykjavik, Iceland sail in
08:05:29 The Golden Circle shore excursion
08:30:29 A rough approach to Greenland
08:51:07 Round Cape Farewell (Greenland)
09:02:11 Nanortalik, Greenland
09:30:48 Aborted call in St. John, Newfoundland
09:33:06 Days at sea
09:35:21 New York City sail in
09:43:03 Statue of Liberty
10:00:24 Wall Street
10:04:36 Empire State Building
10:15:48 Rockefeller Center
10:20:42 Times Square
10:26:54 Central Park
10:39:06 Helicopter flight around Manhattan
10:47:51 Top of the Rock
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Inuit quartet singing in Nanortalik, Greenland
September 2013
South of Greenland in a Storm Force 11
This was shot by me from the record-breaking Rigid Inflatable powerboat Spirit of Cardiff, of which I was a crew member, in July 2003. We were making what would ultimately prove to be the fastest transatlantic in a RIB, from St John's, Newfoundland to Cape Wrath, Scotland, via Greenland and Iceland.
We had refuelled in Nanortalik, and had set off for our next stop in Iceland. But it was just too windy, and with huge waves breaking over the windscreen, there was a real danger that the growlers in the water - lumps of ice the size of cars - would come through.
This clip was shot as we sloshed around not under power in a huge swell south of Cape Farewell, deciding what to do. The wind was blowing at 30 metres per second - that's nearly 70 mph, or Storm Force 11. In the end we turned back for Nanortalik to wait a couple of days for the storm to blow through.
Read about the events which this clip comes from in the Amazon Kindle book Memoirs of a record-breaker, a collection of full-length magazine and newspaper features which chart the fortunes of Spirit of Cardiff from the initial attempts at setting the first ever record for circumnavigating the British Isles, through the record 2001 transatlantic and round the world voyage in 2002, to the final transatlantic in 2003, which set an unofficial record for the fastest ever transatlantic by a RIB (never since challenged).
My Greenland Experience: The Performance
Recorded September 8, 2008.
This is my fourth and final video from Greenland. This video is a performance by the local citizens of Nanortalik in the community's sports center.
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An iceboat sails by the Maasdam near Nanortalik, Greenland
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Leaving Nanortalik, Greenland on the Maasdam. How did we get through those bergs?
06 2009 9 18 Nanortalik, Greenland
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Nanortalik qulaaniit
Extreme points of Greenland | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:41 2 Land use
00:03:15 3 Natural hazards
00:03:31 4 Environment – current issues
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00:08:34 5.2 Extremes
00:08:43 6 Topography
00:09:48 7 Extreme points
00:10:06 7.1 Territory of Greenland
00:11:01 7.2 Island of Greenland
00:11:44 8 Towns
00:12:17 9 History of Exploration
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Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list). As an island, Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second largest ice sheet.
Greenland sits atop the Greenland plate, a subplate of the North American plate. The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth. The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, dated at 3.7–3.8 billion years old.The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell.
The climate is arctic to subarctic, with cool summers and cold winters. The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3,694 meters (12,119 ft). The northernmost point of the island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1900. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum, gold, platinum, uranium, hydropower and fish.
Amanda - Groenlândia
Na segunda edição, Amanda e Victor falam diretamente da Groenlândia. Eles contam a respeito do clima e das pesquisas e experiências que têm realizado a bordo do navio MV Academik Shokalskiy. Além disso, convidam todos a participarem de um live blog no dia 18 de setembro, às 14h.
Girls from greenland.mp4
Kathrine and Lillian from Aasiaat in Greenland tell about the rising sea levels in their country.
Tahitian Princess 1 August 2009- Nanortalik, Greenland
View from the bridge of Tahitian Princess on 1 August 2009 in Nanortalik, Greenland as captured through Kroooz-Cams.com.
Search and Destroy ~ ShadyEskimo ~ Peder Tækker Jepsen
Mikenta Fighter from Nanortalik Greenland