Joyce Pinsker:
Pack ice in Baffin Bay - the ice-strengthened hull of the Sylvia Earle is an impressive Class 1A for polar sailing
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Icebergs in Baffin Bay
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Iceberg detail
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Monumental iceberg, the size of a huge barn
Joyce Pinsker:
View from our cabin 708 on the MV Sylvia Earle
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Ice chart - red and orange indicate thick pack ice that flummoxed our continuation of Northwest Passage to Cambridge Bay
Joyce Pinsker:
Heavy pack ice in Pond Inlet prevented us from completing customs (we headed to Resolute)
Joyce Pinsker:
Moving through the ice
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Icepack in Baffin Bay
Joyce Pinsker:
Captain Artem taking a break from the bridge
Joyce Pinsker:
Polar bear and two cubs hunting for seals on the ice pack
Joyce Pinsker:
Moody late afternoon on Baffin Bay
Joyce Pinsker:
Resolute, on Cornwallis Island, is Canada's 2nd most northerly community
Joyce Pinsker:
Resolute - it has a population of under 200
Joyce Pinsker:
Canada Customs officials arriving at our ship
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Paul at Resolute Bay, waiting to clear customs
Joyce Pinsker:
Resolute - taken from the pool/spa deck
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Passing the only other ship we saw on our trip
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Dundas Harbour, Devon Island
Joyce Pinsker:
Armed polar bear lookout, Morin Point, Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker:
Thule (ancestors of modern Inuit) archeological site at Morin Point
Joyce Pinsker:
Remains of Thule encampment
Joyce Pinsker:
Paul making his way across boggy terrain at Morin Point
Joyce Pinsker:
Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker:
Dundas Harbour was intermittently settle in first half of the 20th c to maintain a patrol presence
Joyce Pinsker:
Mountain avens, Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker:
Devon Island, south coast
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Devon Island
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Approaching Franklin expedition gravesite on Beechey Island
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Our historian Nina