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The Adventure Canada Arctic Safari on Clipper Adventurer started at the end of July and we reached our final destination right on my birthday, August 9th.  I learned a lot about

We get back onboard the Clipper Adventurer and start heading north. We pass some ice and the ship uses the thrusters to avoid some of them.

The next day we anchor in Clyde River and its foggy, Canadian Customs don't land and we in turn therefore cannot make our landing back to Canada.  We start to head north and explore along the

After a nice game of soccer and a brief visit, we now head to Ilulissat, Greenland. The place name means glacier.

July 31, 2012 - We film at the Itilleq graveyard with Aaju, she has memories of her childhood here.

We board the Clipper Adventurer and we head to Itilleq. The fjord is long and as soon as we hit the Arctic Ocean, it’s storming and all of a sudden, the ship doesn't look so big.

July 30, 2012 - On a journey to discovering sovereignty, an amazing opportunity to be on an Arctic cruise onboard the Clipper Adventurer with Adventure Canada for 10 days.  We flew to Kan

Sovereignty is a big word.  I had to look it up, Dictionary.com professed it to be:

  1. "quality or state of being sovereign" - this I found vague

When I was in high school I started to get interested in the land claims.  I joined the Baffin Region Inuit Association, BRIA - Youth committee as a secretary treasurer and eventually&nbs

Nunavut has been a long road and yes, that road is still unfolding.  Once Inuit unity was formed, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada or ITC, now known as Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) started the