点评:On the second day of an eight-day expedition called “West Greenland Ice Odyssey: Glaciers and Icebergs,” Quark Expeditions brought its polar ship, the “Ultramarine,” to Sisimiut (66O 49.5’ N, 053O 32.1’ W) and Nipisat (66O 56.4’N, 053O 40.8’ W). On the west coast of Greenland, with the Labrador Sea to the south and Baffin Bay to the north, Sisimiut is just above the Arctic Circle, approximately 320 km north of Nuuk.
Ferried between the Ultramarine and the public jetty, we disembarked and visited the community, whose name means “the residents at the foxholes” and has been inhabited for the last 4,500 years, home to the Saqqaq culture, then Dorset culture, then the Thule people, whose Inuit descendants now populate the area.
Upon landing, we joined a walking tour of the community – Sisimiut is the second-largest city in Greenland, located just north of the Arctic Circle. We visited the cultural museum, sampled local food, and met with villagers who maintain a craft shop run by local artists and craftspeople.
Earlier the same day the Ultramarine posted off the shore of Nipisat, and from our Zodiacs we cruised along the coastline of Aasivissuit-Nipisathas, which has been the hunting grounds of region for more than 2,500 years.
During the day we saw arctic fox, arctic hare, humpback whale, harp seal, snow bunting, Lapland longspur, common redpoll, northern wheatear, raven, Iceland and Glaucous gull, pomarine and arctic skua, northern fulmar, red-necked phalarope, common eider, and mallard.
翻译:在为期八天的“西格陵兰冰雪奇缘:冰川与冰山”探险之旅的第二天,夸克探险公司驾驶着极地探险船“海洋之极”号抵达西西米尤特(北纬66°49.5’,西经05°32.1’)和尼皮萨特(北纬66°56.4’,西经05°34.8’)。西西米尤特位于格陵兰岛西海岸,南临拉布拉多海,北临巴芬湾,位于北极圈以北,距努克以北约320公里。
我们乘坐渡轮从“海洋无极号”抵达公共码头,下船参观了这个社区。这个社区的名字意为“散兵坑里的居民”,在过去的4500年里一直有人居住,是萨卡克文化的发源地,之后是多塞特文化,再之后是图勒人,如今图勒人的因纽特人后裔居住在该地区。
登陆后,我们参加了社区的徒步之旅——西西缪特是格陵兰岛第二大城市,位于北极圈以北。我们参观了文化博物馆,品尝了当地美食,并与当地艺术家和工匠经营的工艺品店的村民见面。
当天早些时候,“海洋无极号”停靠在尼皮萨特海岸,我们乘坐橡皮艇沿着阿西维苏特-尼皮萨塔斯海岸线航行,这里是该地区2500多年来的狩猎场。
白天,我们看到了北极狐、北极兔、座头鲸、格陵兰海豹、雪鹀、雪鹀、红poll、北白鹡鸰、渡鸦、冰岛鸥和北极鸥、贼鸥和北极贼鸥、北暴风鹱、红颈瓣蹼鹬、普通绒鸭和绿头鸭。