After passing the Nyboe Channel - only 3 metres wide and 1 metre deep - and being up against very strong fjord winds Skjoldungen found shelter in a natural harbor in Ikka Fjord. The crew had many sightings of moscus ox grassing on the fjord banks. Today - thursday - they expect to reach the township of Arsuk.
Columns...
No other place in the world can you find anything like these crooked underwater columns which grow here in the Ikka fjord. They are made from the extremely rare mineral ikait, named after the fjord. The mineral chrystallizes and becomes stable only at temperatures close to zero. And only here.
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Apart from reportedly beeing a very beautiful sight the Ikait-columns of Ikka has also a special legend attached to them. An old Inuit-legend tells that the columns are actually the remains of Norsemen living here centuries ago. One cold winters day the Norsemen had a brawl with the Inuits. The Norsemen fled out on the ice of the fjord and went through. The pillars with their gnarled branches and large algal growths are said to be the fossils of the drowned Norsemen with their outreaching arms and long hair and beard.
(National Geographic.)
