Day 8 17.09.2015
First order of the day was a new
landing. Today we visited Hekla Havn, which served several purposes. It is a
sheltered bay on the south side of Denmark Ø and was named by Carl Ryder’s 1891
– 92 expedition for the expedition ship Hekla. The expedition wintered at this
place.
We could also find remains of
several Inuit camps and a company called Nordisk Mineselskab build a spacious
house in 1967 that still is in good use.
During the landing we also made
use of the expedition technology onboard and used our small rescue craft to
collect sounding data around the landing site to get more accurate seacharts.
This area is so far off, that there is no such reliable maps yet.
In the evening we were
passing the little settlement Ittoqqortoormiit
again and even had a pit stop there to give away some Diesel we got too much in
Iceland and picked up some Gasoline for our tender boats.
We would at this
point use the chance and send a big “Thank You” to Ittoqqortoormiit!
See the tent ring from early greenlandic cultures.
Erik could give us a little introduction into the history of the place.
Eva is watching out.
