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

Friday, 4 May 2018

The Vega expedition (II) - discovering the Northeast Passage

[continued from the previous post] ------------------------------------------------ By the 27th September 1878, the Vega expedition reach...

Sunday, 29 April 2018

The fortunate journey of Nordenskiöld's Vega, the first to sail the Northeast Passage

Th history of polar expeditions and pioneer arctic journeys is full of tragedies and failures. But this is a case of full success; the adve...

Monday, 2 April 2018

(II) - The French sub-antarctic island of Saint Paul

Just some 90 km to the south of the island of Amsterdam, Saint Paul is smaller and permanently uninhabitated. It was first discovered i...

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Martin-de-Viviès, on the sub-antarctic Islands of Saint-Paul et Amsterdam

These islands are remote and isolated, but by no means a freezing polar land. They lay on the middle of the Indian ocean, north of the also...

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