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In July 2020 in a brief window the travel warnings were lifted and sailing resumed to and from Svalbard. I made my way from Denmark to Longyearbyen and then out with Hurtigruten on the first ship out of port for a journey to the northern tip of Svalbard and Moffen Island where we crossed 80 degrees north.
These are the photos from that journey.
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The tourists office on the island of Ornö, Sweden, at the Ornö Kyrka ferry stop. When I was on a job assignment in Stockholm, I used to explore a different island each weekend (in the summer). I called it "island collecting."
Revudden Manor - a classic Swedish house located in the Swedish archipelago south of Stockholm, for conference and private guests.
Please visit www.holiday-houses.se for more information
The Ornö Kyrka ferry stop on the island of Ornö, Sweden.
This is the kayak rental place on Ornö. Any smaller and it wouldn't exist.
Mound Island, Broughton Archipelago Marine Park.
-- Day 13 of 24 days “at sea,” sailing from the Broughtons to Vancouver in ANJA, the Roger Long -designed 23' gaff cutter, alongside ERN, a late-50’s wooden sloop from Chester NS, both out of Heritage Harbour, Vancouver BC.
Santorini, Greece.
May 29 2015.
Family trip to the mediterranean.
Summer vacation.
Santorini (Greek: Σαντορίνη, pronounced [sandoˈrini]), classically Thera (English pronunciation /ˈθɪərə/), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα [ˈθira]), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km2 (28 sq mi) and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana. The total land area is 90.623 km2 (34.990 sq mi). Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit.[2]
Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic eruption that destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island, and created the current geological caldera. A giant central, rectangular lagoon, which measures about 12 by 7 km (7.5 by 4.3 mi), is surrounded by 300 m (980 ft) high, steep cliffs on three sides. The main island slopes downward to the Aegean Sea. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the sea by another much smaller island called Therasia; the lagoon is connected to the sea in two places, in the northwest and southwest. The depth of the caldera, at 400m, makes it possible for all but the largest ships to anchor anywhere in the protected bay; there is also a fisherman harbour at Vlychada, on the southwestern coast. The island's principal port is Athinias. The capital, Fira, clings to the top of the cliff looking down on the lagoon. The volcanic rocks present from the prior eruptions feature olivine and have a small presence of hornblende.[3]
It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-filled caldera. The volcanic arc is approximately 500 km (310 mi) long and 20 to 40 km (12 to 25 mi) wide. The region first became volcanically active around 3–4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around the Akrotiri.
The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of metres deep and may have led indirectly to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 110 km (68 mi) to the south, through a gigantic tsunami. Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.[4]
Nikon D600 / Nikkor 50mm F1.4ai / Variable ND Filter.