Saturday, June 20, 2015

Arriving in Iqaluit on Baffin Island


Here are some photos taken from the plane as we approached the runway to land. The sea is still frozen and an ice-breaker ship will come mid-July to allow supply ships to get to land.


























The terminal building is bright yellow so that it can be seen in a blizzard!


The frozen sea 150 metres from our apartment
Our apartment is on the first floor. As with all buildings it is built on stilts so that the heat from the building doesn't melt the permafrost below which acts as the foundation.

The view from our apartment with the Cathedral on the left and the soup kitchen and thrift store on the right. In the distance are the hills across the frozen sea.