I thought this was interesting.... There's a big cruise ship, the Crystal Serenity, which is currently just north of Barrow Alaska and is planning to cruise through the Northwest Passage down to New York City. The first big cruise ship to do this, thanks to climate change ( Read more... )

I came across an article from the BBC contemplating what MIGHT be possible for Scotland to stay in both EU and UK... here's a bit of it:

"What might be possible? Could Scotland gain a distinctive status as, in reverse, is the case with Greenland and the Faroes which are parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, yet not in membership of the EU?

Well, ( Read more... )

Another for my song hall of fame... "The Greenland Whale Fisheries" performed by Judy Collins and Theodore Bikel ( Read more... )

I once wrote a letter to Grise Fiord, a community in the far north of Canada, because I'd always been strangely fascinated by the arctic...

I saw this in the news today, from CBC:

A 32-year-old Romanian man who arrived in the High Arctic community of Grise Fiord from Greenland by motorboat Monday has been arrested under the Immigration Act.

The man ( Read more... )

Forget the Bering Strait, the first humans in North America may have come from Europe, not Asia ( Read more... )

Forget Columbus or the Spanish or the Vikings or the Chinese or even the Welsh.  It was the Irish who "discovered" America !

Excerpts follow from  http://farshores.org/a03giine.htm.   Sorry about the length but I don't like to hide posts under a cut.  These are just the real interesting bits:

In the year 795 A. D. fierce sea-rovers of Danish ( Read more... )

Those pesky Vikings get EVERYWHERE. There's even speculation that they reached Mexico. It's on teh INTERNET, so it MUST BE TRUE ( Read more... )