Early this morning
the FRAM dropped anchour in the bottom of Alpefjorden. This fjord is a part of
the Staunings Alps, a very alpine and mountainous area. Some of the peaks are
over 2800 m and the landscape is impressive! We lowered our polarcirkel boats
and the passengers got a cruise a long on of the glaciers terminating in the
fjord. The glacier actually two glaciers mergin together. The names are the
Gully Gletcher and the Sefstrøms Gletcher. The weather was a bit cloudy with
light snow showers on the summits. As we sailed out of the fjord and into
Segelselskapets fjord the sun broke through the cloud cover and a spectacular
rock face with many different layers of rocks in different colours were visible
to everyone. 
We dropped anchour
in Nyhavn, the harbour facilities of the Mestersvig area at1600 hrs. After
landing at the pier with our polarcirkels we were greeted by three of people
living at the Danish Naval Guard at Mestersvig. Mestersvig was built when a
lead and zinc mine was opened in 1950s‘. They needed a harbour to ship the ore
to Europe and an air-field. The mine closed in 1961 but the air-field continued
to operate for the people in Scoresbysund. In 1985 the air-field was closed
down as Scoresbysund got their own air-field in Constable Pynt. The military
then took over the air-field in Mestersvig and has since „guarded“ the air-field
with normaly two former members of the SIRIUS patrol, Station Nord or the other
branches of the Danish Military.Unfortunately I did not have time to go to the air-field to take a look :0(
1 comment:
Oh, that's too bad - frustrating to be "at home' and unable to go to the house! But, nice to see the familiar scenes again....
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