{"id":208,"date":"2016-03-23T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:09:03","slug":"baffin-island-greenland-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/baffin-island-greenland-11-2","title":{"rendered":"Baffin Island & Greenland 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

John from Wildfoot travelled in August from Iqaluit on Baffin Island to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland on one of the company\u2019s Arctic adventure cruises. This is the final day in the log of his experiences.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Day 12<\/p>\n

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Bags collected from our cabin at 07.00, then breakfast and a zodiac transfer across dead calm but very muddy water to the small harbour. There is no actual town here, the airport was built in the 1940s as a fair weather staging post between America and Britain and still has the longest runway in Greenland, so it is the only international airport and smaller planes, Dash 7s and 8s are what we saw, feed passengers in here.<\/p>\n

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On the drive from the harbour to the airport, we caught a glimpse of the Greenland Icecap in the distance and also saw the swathe of muddy residue which flows down from the glacier to the fjord.<\/p>\n

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An interesting fact is that the Greenland flag is actually a representation of the sun rising over the Greenland icecap.<\/p>\n

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Most of our fellow travellers return to Ottawa later in the day, so are off for a excursion in the Arctic looking for musk oxen – shame we will miss this, just means we will have to come on an Arctic adventure cruise again another time!<\/p>\n

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Last minute souvenir shopping at the small airport shop and we are off to Copenhagen, where we overnight before returning to Manchester.<\/p>\n

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And so ends another brilliant trip to the world\u2019s extremes \u2013 where next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so ends another brilliant trip to the world\u2019s extremes; we have seen polar bears and the birthplace of icebergs and seen something of the culture of the peoples who live in these often harsh lands\u2013 where to next?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-travel","category-arctic","category-canadian-arctic","category-greenland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}