Beechey Island is amongst the
grimmest and bleakest places I have ever visited. The day of our
visit was +3C and after a short period of brightness soon
settled to a steady cold drizzle. It seemed quite appropriate as
the place where Franklin's expedition started to go seriously
wrong. There is a light scattering of plants in only the most
sheltered hollows of the flat shingle strewn landscape. The land
owed more to the patterns caused by frost than to anything
living, there weren't even many large stones to assemble any
kind of shelter from, it is hard to imagine a less forgiving
place to be stranded.
Air temp: +3º C Latitude: 74º 43' N Longitude: 91º 48' W
These are pictures
from a cruise to the High Arctic in August 2010, from Resolute
Bay Canada to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland.
Pictures copyright Paul Ward.
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