Category: Society

Pele Blytmann and Joel Hansen - fishermen in Disko Bay, Greenland

Polar Journal AG Team

In the port of Ilulissat, sailors leave and land between the ice every day. We met two of them. They tell us what they like about their profession and the difficulties they face.

Of polar bears and men: Churchill

Mirjana Binggeli

In a new documentary, CBS highlights the challenges facing Churchill. The documentary focuses in particular on the inhabitants of this town famous for its polar bears.

Diary of a journey to Greenland: from where the boats go and where the city comes

Polar Journal AG Team

Among the scenes polarjournal.net witnessed this week were the sailors setting sail from the small fishing port of Ilulissat, the parade of locals to the Brugseni supermarket, Easter days and the blue sky.

Meet Sofie Schultz Christiansen - Her story in languages

Polar Journal AG Team

A translator and interpreter since she was a child, Sofie Schultz Christiansen told us about her story, her passion for languages, her travels and her life in Ilulissat.

Diary of a journey to Greenland: melt day and ice childhood

Polar Journal AG Team

Among the scenes that polarjournal.net witnessed this week were the sudden melting in April, the first signs that winter is ending, and an outing in the fjord with a group of children we met at the ILLU Science and Art Center.

Diary of a journey in Greenland: from the sky to the old church in Ilulissat

Polar Journal AG Team

Among the scenes witnessed by polarjournal.net this week were a passage over Greenland in a small twin-engined plane and a baptism in a church in Ilulissat dating from 1771.

France Pinczon du Sel and Éric Brossier - Part II: The art of sharing

Camille Lin

In contact with researchers who came to live with them to study the pack ice, the two partners have imbibed a scientific culture that they strive to pass on to interested Inuit and southerners alike.

Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel - Part I: Tandem in the cold

Camille Lin

Attracted by the beauty of the Arctic and in search of rational explanations of how it works, the two partners immersed themselves in a frozen landscape. Ideal conditions in which to meet modern-day Inuit and share a few ancestral customs.

The Polar Retrospective - Erased graffiti, an updated map, Arctic killer whales, and a Finnish inconvenience

Polar Journal AG Team

This week we look at a mission to clean up a graffitied building in Antarctica, a new South Orkney Islands map, an increase in Arctic killer whales, and rising tourism prices in Finland.

"Did it pass too close, was it too late to reverse?"

Camille Lin

Hervé Baudu, professor of nautical sciences at the École Nationale Supérieure Maritime and member of the Académie de Marine, talks about the collision of the 50 Let Pobedy and the polar seminar of the Arctic Council's Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME), co-organized with the International Maritime Organization.