Polar Voyages by Gray Gordon

Author:Gray, Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2015-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

A towering berg floats out of Nordevest Fjord into Scvoresbysund.

Slow ahead as we weave between the icebergs.

We sail that evening and head into the fjord but only after circling a large iceberg in the bay which is constantly changing colour as the sun sets in the west while we look at it from all points of the compass. The following day, having steamed up the fjord overnight, we are greeted by a majestic sight of many huge icebergs floating in the still waters of the fjord. The fjord at this point is very wide, more like an inland sea than a fjord. These bergs are all many times larger than the ship and we thread our way through them towards Norosti Bukta and Nordvest Fjord. We go ashore and for a couple of hours we just sit on a rock and watch, entranced as iceberg after iceberg drifts out of Nordvest Fjord into the main fjord. Although they are moving slowly, when we watch them against the background of the mountains they appear to be racing out of the fjord. Nordvest Fjord leads up into a mountain range known as the Staunning Alps and from where we are we could see why it is so called. The sparkling white peaks peep out over the nearer mountains, resembling a Swiss scene. At its head, the fjord is fed by the Greenland ice cap. It is impossible for the ship to find a way up Nordvest Fjord due to the number of bergs and the speed at which they are all moving. This is a one-way street. These icebergs are tens of feet high, some must have been well over 100-feet-high, and our ship is often lost behind them as she manoeuvres in the open water of the main fjord to avoid them. Later that afternoon, as we sail off to the west, we look back. The sun has now moved round and the icebergs have become silhouetted. The sea has become a silver glistening mirror on which sits a monochrome of dozens of black icebergs.

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