Ultima Thule

Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle!

Here in thy harbors for a while

We lower our sails; a while we rest

From the unending, endless quest

Saturday, 9 May 2009

Ny Ålesund and the adventure of the Norge
- part I

Ny Ålesund is situated on the NW coast of the Svalbard island Spitzberg. Ny Ålesund station is probably the most northern inhabited plac...

Is Global warming just delaying a new Ice Age ?

Maybe the causes of global warming are not as recent as the industrial coal-fueled revolution 200 years ago, but as old as thousands of year...

Friday, 8 May 2009

Silanigtalersarput

In his book about the Arctic Thule expeditions and the inuit people, Knud Rasmussen (the greenlandic explorer) gives an account of that ...

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

An Arctic Poem

Emily Dickinson - As if some little Arctic flower As if some little Arctic flower Upon the polar hem Went wandering down the Latitudes ...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

My town

I live in Porto - Gaia, a double city in Portugal on both sides of the Douro river, close to its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean. You can find ...

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Mário R. Gonçalves

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