Sibéal Turraoin - Irish Adventures in the North-West Passage

Young Larry in the Northwest Passage 2010Sibéal Turraoin

– Roald Amundsen (1872—1928)"Adventure is just bad planning.”

From Oqaatsut (Rode Bay) to Saqqaq

The journey 27 May 2010 – 23 October 2010Dungarvan – Dingle – Nuuk – Upernavik – Pond Inlet – Tuktoyaktuk – Nome - Kodiak8000nm (approx)

Young Larry, from Upernavik Kujalleq (Søndre Upernavik) to Kangersuatsiaq (Prøven), Greenland

The crew: Máire Breathnach, Andrew Wilkes, Dermot O’Riordan

Dingle – June 2010

Shaman - Arctic Nations Summit; Santa’s Postbox, Nuuk Cathedral; Blok P, which held !% of the population, Nuuk (Godthab)

Locals, Maniitsoq (Sukkertoppen)

Tunu (Hamborgersund)

Church and whalebone arch, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg) Fishing, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg)

Summer semi-sod house, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg); Man in national dress and church, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

Reindeer antlers on a home, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

Puppies, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

Humpback whale, Disko Bay

Iceberg, Ilulissat Kangerlua

Brash ice and icebergs, Ilulissat Kangerlua

Fishermen, Ilulissat Kangerlua

Give way to sledge; 18th century Zion Church (Zions Kirke); Workshop; drying fish; Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)

Whalehunt and puppies, Upernavik Kujalleq (Søndre Upernavik)

Upernavik at midnight

Boy, Upernavik

Aorrussaarssuk

Canadian ice charts, Baffin and High Arctic areas

Crossing the Davis Straits between Greenland and Canada, Nunavut and Canadian flags, Preparing for whale hunt, Pond Inlet, Nunavut

Pond Inlet, Nunavut

Whale hunt permit signing, Pond Inlet, Nunavut

Pond Inlet, Nunavut

Eclipse Sound, Nunavut

Remains of winter shelter; graves; Beechey Island, Nunavut

Sibéal and Arctic hare; seal on the ice; polar bear swimming at midnight; Beechey Island, Nunavut

Church Window, Church of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Gjoa Haven

Boy in traditional parkas; Leo and his work, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

Drummer, Gjoa Haven; and Inuit sports, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Traditional parkas, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Girl and puppies, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Fishing, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

DEW Line station, Bernard Harbour, Nunavut

Smoking Hills, Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories

Pingo (landlocked iceberg) and caribou, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

Ground squirrel outside the old Hudson Bay Trading Company site, Tuktoyaktuk

Children playing at the RC Mission, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

Aurora borealis, Hershel Island, Northwest Territories

Big Diomede Island (Russia) and Little Diomede Island (USA)

Gold dredger, Nome, Alaska

Musk ox, Nome, Alaska

Bald eagle and sealion, Dutch Harbour, Amaknak Island, Unalaska, Alaska

Russian Orthodox Church, Unalaska, Alaska

Alaskan Peninsula, Alaska

Buffalo and road sign, Kodiak Island, Alaska

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