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The first sunrise in late february after three months of dark season. At noon, the sunlight breakes through a canyon, cascading for a few minutes over the deep frozen landscape, hitting Thule Mountain - make it golden, until again the Sun is gone for that day. Next day all the surroundings get lit up, and thus 20 more minutes of sunshine for each day. From late april, the sun stays in the sky, circling the horizon, until late august (in dark season, the Moon cirkles the sky in similar way). Photo taken from Thule Air Base. |
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Goin' the easy way in Kane Basin, 600 km north of Thule . . along this high-arctic costline is a phenomenon as a "lagoon", melting water captured by piled-up coast ice that stayed over-summer for ages, creating small "glaciers" of coast ice. |
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Summer, July, with the Midnight Sun shining from due north, over the Thule Mountain peninsula, and the mountain, 222m heigh, and with a memorial cairn and inscription in greenlandic for the great danish founder and explorer Knud Rasmussen, at the heighest point. |
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In the Midnight Sun, overlooking Thule Air Base and North Star Bay. To the far right is seen a bit of Thule Mountain. At the air base is seen - besides numerous 1- and 2 story barracks, 10 big hangars and 41 fuel tanks, that in the good old days of the base each held 10.000 tons of diesel, gasoline, jet-petroleum or rocket fuel, as the supply for the up to 12.000 civilian and military crew. The 2m thick ice is broken, but still lingering, while on the barren land myriads of flowers - here arctic puppy - take over from frost and snow, in barely unfreezing temperatures. |
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Midnight Sun in July over Thule Mountain near Thule Air Base. The ice is gone, now is heard rolling "thunder" from braking glaciers and icebergs, somewhere for miles and miles away. |
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A 12-year old boy with a pup, aboard a small cutter mostly
used for walrus hunting. Boys from the age of 9 follows in hunting trips,
shooting their first prey, with their own rifle of smaller caliber. From
around the age of 18 they go with their own sledge, in long riskfull journeys,
for polar bear. So riskfull, that some never return, - the father of the
boy in the picture perished in a hunt journey.
In summer, as in dark season, the hunter people don't sleep in regular hours, - everyone just go to sleep when tired. Photo in sunlight at midnight. |