One of the hallmarks of light here at certain times of of the year is the entire horizon is rimed with pink. Three days until the Sun returns. #Nunavut#Arctic
@NunavutBirder@sjuvonen Feeling kinda dumb here 🤭 , but I have not the in depth knowledge to explain the physics behind that. Guessing atmospheric reflection due to the angle of the sun to earth enables some spectral filter, but that is just a wild guess in deed.
So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.
I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut#Arctic#Stamps#philately#CanadaPost
I often say that Antarctica is really big - and one of the reasons that it's quite hard to work out what is going on is the sheer size as well as lack of observations.
We would not expect the same weather and climate across the US, and #Antarctica is almost 1.5 times bigger than the USA...
@sciencewrighter Yes. The Sun skims along below the horizon and we have twilight. That gradually decreases over six weeks until we barely have twilight, but even on Dec 21st you can’t see stars at noon.
Last one. For now. A dog team heads out Adams Sound into the teeth of a storm. The landscape fades into the drifting snow. #Nunavut#Arctic#cold#landscapePhotography photography
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
I've been planning a blog post on Antarctica for literally ten years. And now @TheEconomist has gone and done it. Typical. Ah well. Maybe later on today ..
In an ATV trip to Innaaluup Nuvua last summer we stopped at the top of this magnificent valley above Innaarulaalikuluk and Admiralty Inlet. #Nunavut#Arctic#LandscapePhotography
@CStamp@thomasfuchs No. not at all. I grew up on the prairies and lived in the heart of the boreal. Most common southern feeling is one of bewilderment at the amount of choice in grocery stores
I so much prefer the Nunavut language to English, even though I don't speak or understand it. I spend ages looking at the words, trying to say them. Beautiful language.
Tomorrow is the last day of Sun in town. (Technically another week but because of the topography we last see it Nov 5). Sun down all during this cabin trip. #Nunavut#Arctic#CabinLife
@bjb@Flux More than we used to, although it’s been cloudy a lot this year.
If you think about Aurora activity as being a big doughnut we were mostly in the hole when I got here. But as the north magnetic pole has migrated towards Russia it’s pulled the doughnut’s edge over us.