Serene, lovely, indifferent and pure joy. Greenish lichen type vegetation on the lower slopes, black cinder slopes above, streaky snow in the gullies – lots of little ice filled gullies – Berri’s first mini glaciers. The most perfect volcanic peak gradually emerged into thin sunlight – patchy blue sky, the snow and ice at the top glowing white and merging into the cloud – lenticular cloud around the top, never actually saw the very top of the cone Plastic roll-down curtain to protect nav table /instruments from water, but the shoulders were brilliant white gleaming iridescence. Slowly slowly, out of the murk, the slope got bigger and there was – snow! Of all the most unexpected and gobsmackingly amazing experiences, this rates pretty high. en./wiki/Amchitka, whales, dolphins, puffins, albatrosses, flocks of little auks and then – Gareloi A volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, USA.
Amchitka Island was the site of the Cannikin nuclear test – the biggest underground explosion ever conducted by the USA (as far as we know). We’ve sailed a quarter of the way around the world, from semi tropical Sydney, through the squalls and nonsense along the way, headbanged the current, sweatd through the tropics, plugged our way north to Amchitka Amchitka Pass:a strait in the Aleutian Islands, between the Rat Islands group to the west and the Delarof Islands to the east. How can I begin to convey the beauty and the wonder of this. Puffin © Dr Graeme Davis from his new book “ Vikings in America“ Subsequent visits to Arctic (2010 & 2011).Berrimilla rolls and dismasts (Jan 2007).And, he argues, the name the Vikings gave to this New World was America. From New York's Long Island to the Canadian High Arctic, the New World was a playground for Viking adventurers. For four centuries or more, from their first visits around AD 1000 to the eve of the Columbus voyages, the Vikings explored and settled thousands of miles of the coasts and rivers of North America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonization of the eastern seaboard of North America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic, and DNA evidence that supplements the historic account. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil-centuries before Columbus.
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