Author: Arctic Alien
Old Man and the Sea
It was a lot of meat. I had stopped by the gate leading down to the pier to look at the large plastic…
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Two black rocks untouched by time’s ancient hands
After my first experiences with the pristine, ancient rocks in Greenland, geological field work in tropical northern Australia was a shock. The rocks…
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‘Winterize’
Before moving to Greenland, I did not know that the word ‘winter’ could be made into a verb. I had never ‘winterized’ anything…
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My son, the orange roughy
There is always an element of slapstick when my son dons his bright orange dry suit. He wasn’t particularly keen on it when…
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A dream lost
The job advertisement all but leapt from the page. It was exactly what I’d been looking for all these years since we left…
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“Get out of our area!”
The north side of the Nuuk peninsula, out past the airport, used to be a wild place of rocky hills and valleys sloping…
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Autumn days
The tumbling, rushing water dives over a rocky ledge and into a dark pool. There is a flash of silver as a fish…
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Where have you been?
I had all but forgotten that I was expecting a new credit card from Australia. So when I finally received it, I looked…
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Together alone
Greenland is the least densely populated country in the world. Even when you subtract the inland ice, which accounts for about 80% of…
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