This was my second trip to East Greenland, this time as part of an expedition organised bythe Botanical Dept of the University of Lancaster. I wasn't doing any science - my Arctic botany isn't up to scratch - I was just there to make up the numbers. Two other students were on the trip, and we teamed up and wandered over the island together.

We were there during August, so the plants had all finished flowering, though there was enough animal life to make things interesting - including an encounter with a polar bear. By the time we left at the end of the month the sun had begun to dip behind the hills on the horizon so we got to see some fantastic sunsets, and the temperature dropped to about -10°C at night.

View map of Kuhn Ø