The active refrigerated container housing all samples, which are transported frozen at -20 °C to Dumont d’Urville by traverse. During loading, I make sure that my samples are on the floor if possible and surrounded by other polystyrene boxes so that the samples...
Baking as “punishment”! Swiss braided bread is too bland for my French and Italian colleagues, so I add more sugar, lemon zest, butter and raisins and call it brioche. (Photo: Matthias Jaggi / SLF) SLF technician Matthias Jaggi reports on his expedition to...
Polar expedition voyages aim to give guests the feeling of being able to follow in the footsteps of polar explorers and discoverers. Feeling like Amundsen, Shackleton or Nansen when you enter a place for the first time is certainly one of the elations you feel. On the...
High mountain flanks with snow flanks ending in craggy peaks, clear lakes and streams tumbling down the same mountain slopes as thundering waterfalls, deep fjords with numerous icebergs floating in them and lots of green and lush tundra, this is the landscape of South...
The South of Greenland is visited by cruise ships from time to time. But most of them just sail through the picturesque Prins Christian Sound and stop at some ruins from the Viking Age. The small villages that lie in the fjords and along the coasts are rarely visited,...