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May 2005
© Bill Corner
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Image 0: The Twin Otter on the Kuhn Ø air strip
Image 1: The first camp site at the Sirius hut
Image 2: The view north from Sirius camp up Fliglies Fjord
Image 3: Snowy owl. Just north of Sirius camp two pairs of snowy owls where nesting. It was a lemming boom year so the owls where taking advantage.
Image 4: A lemming. They where having a good year, providing plenty of food for the snowy owls and gyr falcons
Image 5: A rock we named Easter Island rock - for obvious reasons
Image 6: Most of the features on the island didn't have name, so we named them... This one was called Lake Lake.
Image 7: The river heading down to bastion Bught
Image 8: Our camp at Bastion Bught. It was very wet, a depression blew over and that night we were kept awake by a force 8 gale. Luckily my tent withstood the elements.
Image 9: Bastion Bught - after the storm
Image 10: A ptarmigan - starting to moult into its winter plumage
Image 11: Iceberg on Fliglies Fjord
Image 12: The typical landscape of the island. Flora rich tundra (which Dad is examining). The mountain at in the background is Boneheid. Named after a similar shaped hill in the Selkirkshire.
Image 13: Boneheid is shaped due to a cap of columnar basalt. The reddish tinge to this photo is due to the low sun angle, we climbed Boneheid in the wee small hours and reached the top at sunrise - or at least when the sun started climbing again.
Image 14: An Arctic hare. More food for the owls and foxes
Image 15: Magnet Mt. So named as it always seemed to creep into camera's view finder.
Image 16: Magnet Mt and Ullas Ø at the north end of Fliglies Fjord
Image 17: A long tailed skua
Image 18: A fog bow - similar to a rain bow but because the water droplets are too small to completely refract the sunlight it the colours are diffuse and indistinct.
Image 19: The sunset over Fliglies Fjord. As we were there in late August the sun began to dip behind the hills on the horizon at night, so we got to see some spectacular sunsets
Image 20: An Inuit tent ring - evidence of an old Inuit hunting camp
Image 21: A big mountain on the mainland to the North, which we named the Matterhorn
Image 22: A large family ground of musk ox
Image 23: Some rifle practice - in case we were disturbed by a polar bear
Image 24: A polar bear - it's that yellowy white blob on the shore line. Quite near enough, thank you!
Image 25: Rog on the summit of Mt Tango looking over to Magnet Mt
Image 26: Summit ridge on Mt Tango
Image 27: A gyr falcon - there was a pair nesting on the island
Image 28: A small inflatable - which was meant to transport us over the fjord. But most of the group boycotted it - well, look at it - you would have too!
Image 29: A sunset over Magnet Mt.
Image 30: The Greenland Post Office logo - on a post box at Constable Point.
Image 31: Group photograph
