Ansgar Walk

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DC-3 Picture

Thanks for contributing a picture to the DC-3 article. I took the liberty of editing it slightly to show a level horizon and reduced the file size under 5MB per wikipedia guidelines. Thanks and welcome !! Intersofia 17:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

This is very welcome!--Ansgar Walk 08:50, 27 March 2006 (CET)

Tanquary Fiord

I noticed the exsistence of the above from the list of airports in Nunavut (Tanquary Fiord Airport). However, it's not listed in the list of communities in Nunavut. CambridgeBayWeather suggested that maybe you could you shed some light as to where it should be included on the communities list? Tompw 14:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, at Tanquary Fiord there exists only an outpost of Parks Canada, i. e. the entrance to Quttinirpaaq National Park, and there is no "community of Nunavut" (it's too far north = 81°25' N; the most northern community of Nunavut is Grise Fiord). Really, I have some problems with the expression "Tanquary Fiord Airport" - this is not an airport, only an airstrip with gravels. Perhaps you my have a look into the article "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quttinirpaaq-Nationalpark" and find the photo of the camp. Kind regards --Ansgar Walk 17:47, 26 Oct 2006 (CEST)

Igloo

Big igloo in front of Kinngait in southern region of Baffin Island.

I added your excellent Igloo picture to the Igloo article. Your image description of it on commons states: "Big iglu in front of Kinngait (southern region of Baffin Island)." Does "Kinngait" in this case mean the Inuit name of Cape Dorset, Nunavut (which indeed is in the southern part of Baffin Island) or does it mean the Inuit word for "mountain" (as we can clearly see a mountain behind that Igloo)? --David Göthberg 21:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

It means both: Indeed you can recognize the mountain "Kinngait" in the background that gave the community Cape Dorset (on Cape Dorset Island) its Inuit name. In this special case "Kinngait" means not mountain (or mountains, pl.) in general; it IS the name of the mountain. Regards --Ansgar Walk 11:23, 17 December 2006 (CET)

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Your photos

Hi Ansgar, thank you very much for uploading your photos of the Russian arctic. Do you have any others of the area? Even if you don't want to share them on WP, i would like to see them if you have uploaded them somewhere. I have been to Chukotka myself and am very interested in photos of the settlements there. Thanks again. Fenix down (talk) 13:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for asking me. Since 2012 I have been in the Russian Arctic for several times and now I am uploading peu à peu some typical samples. The settlements I will publish photos about within the next four weeks are as follows:

de.wikipedia.com: Lawrentija

en.wikipedia.com: Inchoun, Lorino, Neshkan, Provideniya, Uelen, Vankarem

Further on I have uploaded (or will do so) photos of

Cape Dezhnev, Franz Josef Land (and special islands there, for example Rudolf Island), Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, Taymyr Peninsula (Cape Chelyuskin), Wrangel Island and others.

Perhaps this image may be of interest for you: "File:Nordpolarmeer 1 2014-08-27.jpg" - it shows nothing but ice flow and documents a "World record"... --Ansgar Walk (talk) 11:00, 16. März 2016 (CET)

No problem Ansgar, thanks for replying. Looking forward to seeing your photos, when I went to Chukotka, bar Anadyr, I didn't go to any other settlements. Did you go on a tour or did you go for work? Fenix down (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

We (my wife and I) were travelling since 1994 alone and only accompanied by local friends thru the (English speaking) Western Arctic about 20 times, mostly as guests of Inuit; since 2010 ("getting older") we began to cruise thru regions we had no ability to reach by "normal" vehicles (Russia or special parts of the Northwest Passage) by so called "expedition cruise ships".It wa sour second or third carriere! --Ansgar Walk (talk) 11:35, 16. März 2016 (CET)

that sounds like a great experience, I'm yet to visit the western arctic, but also have only managed to get into the Russian parts on organised cruises. Fortunately that is part of the world that is not so popular so I have been able to do it on smaller ships. Now Russia is looking to reopen a number of mothballed airbases in their arctic islands I wonder how much longer that part of the world will be open. Fenix down (talk) 11:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh yes, we like the small ships as well (our ships were the BREMEN and the HANSEATIC, 160 or 180 tourists max.). Our problem was NOT to speak Russian (one of the reasons why we preferred Canada to travel with natives). Ansgar Walk (talk) 13:17, 16. März 2016 (CET)

What company did you go with? I went with these guys who seem to have expanded their offering a bit since I went. Fenix down (talk) 12:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

For our cruise programs we onlay contacted directly Hapag Llloyd, Hamburg. You will find an English site. Ansgar Walk (talk) 19:47, 16. März 2016 (CET)