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Places and people..

View of Tunulliarfik fjord during approach to Narsarsuaq airport.

Summer ice in Tunulliarfik fjord.

Earl and Howie, at the start of a Taseq slope hike.

A prime exploration area on Taseq slope.

Altered naujaite blocks entrained in black lujavrite, high on Taseq slope.

Howie resting at entrance to his tugtupite 'cave'.

Tugtupite in large albitite vein.

Peter making some rocks fly.

Mark and Lee getting drinking water from Taseq lake.

View down Kangerluarsuk fjord - at 5:15 a.m.

Kakortokites at Kangerluarsuk in the early evening.

Late evening sunshine reaching 'the comb', Killivaat (Redekammen).

Lee and Mark inspect a boulder at Sodalite Beach.

Mark's campfire at Sodalite Beach.

View from high on Tunulliarfik cliffs.

Niviarsiaq, national flower of Greenland, growing on Ilímaussaq's syenites along the Tunulliarfik fjord.

Pale blue icebergs near Narsaq.

Narsaq villager navigating through the ice.

A sea of icebergs surround Narsaq village.

Howie leaves his final mark on the Rock Hut.

Sunset arriving on Taseq slope.. just before midnight.

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A few of the fluorescent mineral specimens..

HY specimen 5001, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5002, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5003, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5008, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5004, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5005, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5006, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

HY specimen 5007, shown fluorescing under shortwave ultraviolet.

Some additional information..

• Fluorescent Minerals of Ilímaussaq, Greenland
   

• Complete Trip Report (2003)
   

• Photo journal from the 2004 Trip

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