Donald Trump wants to break Greenland for the US, the Arctic island of Vecht back. Austria has already moved to a flag – with a research station at the University of Graz, felt at the end of the world. There will be again in April. The journey is adventurous.
Exactly a hundred words, according to the Inuit tradition in the Greenland language, must be available for the term snow. When Line Kristiansen left in the Eskimo-Enlave Tasiilaq in the remote east of the island and, unlike most inhabitants, not uses a dog slide, but a motor ski doo supports, one talks about “apu”.
Given the temperatures around zero degrees, the fresh snow is moist, the ice under mirror -smooth. The crunch of the sealing fur boots is now particularly striking.
Red and white red flag blows on a wooden house
The Danish (44) has one goal: under the MediVakkat -Glacier there is a wooden house in the Sermilik Fjord. And the red and white -red flag usually blows up, if not furious like a snowstorm. In 2023, the University of Graz started the establishment of the only Polar Station in Austria after a long location survey. The official opening will follow in the summer.
In the historic traces of the North Pole adventurer Carl Weyprecht and Julius Payer discovers, they the legendary Franz-Josef-Land and, like history books, they once had to leave their expedition tip “Admiral Tegetthoff” behind Now, as it was, a researcher in Styria.
Andreas Trügler was born in Klein Sankt Paul in the Görtschitztal in Carinthia and recently became the head of the base. At the moment he is still working on lectures in Graz because of the weather, but the 43 -year -old physicist has the minutes until he can go back to his beloved North Pole area, “my enthusiasm for the polar region,” says the Family Man in the “Krone” conversation “, comes from mountain climbing.” After the Alps he was on Spitzbergen, among others – and then to Greenland. “I would never have dreamed that I should lead a station here,” he is enthusiastic.
Arrival with helicopter and snowmobile
The flights to the capital Nuuk have already been booked before April, after which helicopter and snowmobile go back to the Austrian base. Dr. Trügler relies on interdisciplinarity, the focus is on climate change.
In the meantime, the evening blinks red through the clouds in Tasiilaq. It is the time that the days north of the polar circle are longer. There is rarely northern lights, soon the midnight sun will rob your sleep. Inuit in a visit to the sled and visiting the dry fish in the memory in the city. Line delivers your snowmobile in the garage. The controller was successful.
Last cut for our North Pole station
In the past, Line would probably be called a caregiver and Logistics Manager is now more appropriate. In any case, the sympathetic Power Woman also takes care of our polar station in the inhospitable season. Before Andreas Trügler and his students go north again. You then want to miss the finishing touch of our Arctic Station-on Donald Trump’s island of the desired island.
Source: Krone
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