The Arctic Station

Following pictures are from the Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq = The Great Island) on the westcoast of Greenland, where I was on a one-week course for future scientists on The Arctic Station. Qeqertarsuaq is a very different and fascinating place in Greenland, with vulcanic activity, glaciers, strange phenomena and fauna, and this is the place where they discovered a whole new row of strange microbes with teeths!

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The hexagonal rocks were made when lava slowly hardened.
The Surging Glacier is a rare phenomenon, because of it's incredible speed compared to normal glaciers. It's slowing down now, but when it started running, it could move more than 30 m/day! (normal glaciers move about less than 1cm/day)
The glacier port where melted ice comes out (main subglacial drainage outlet). Even though it's dangerous to get too close, because of ice breaking off, we had to get a closer look.
We got transported to the glacier with a helicopter, type Sikorsky S-61.
The melt water river from the port made a great delta with mud.
The Big Greenlandic Crab tastes great, but alive it's quite strong.
With gold washing techniques we filtered sand from a lake. No gold though - but lots of magnetic ironsand. The Arctic Station in the background.
By cracking lava stones we could find crystals in the hardened air bubbles inside.
Having an outdoor lesson by the old beach pillars. Great weather, great view... This is how every lesson should be like.
Closer look at the beach pillars, made of eroding rock when the beach was higher up. Now the beach has moved about 100 m down.
Measuring distances near the beach. View of the mountains on Qeqertarsuaq in the background.

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