KABLOONAS

KABLOONAS
Burial of John Franklin. Author: me

KABLOONAS

Kabloonas is the way in which the Inuit who live in the north part of Canada call those who haven´t their same ascendency.

The first time i read this word was in the book "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan, when, as the result of the conversations between John Rae and some inuit, and trying to find any evidence of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin Expedition, some of then mentioned that they watched how some kabloonas walked to die in the proximities of the river Great Fish.

I wish to publish this blog to order and share all those anecdotes that I´ve been finding in the arctic literature about arctic expeditions. My interest began more than 15 years ago reading a little book of my brother about north and south pole expeditions. I began reading almost all the bibliography about Antarctic expeditions and the superknown expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc. After I was captured by the Nansen, Nobile and Engineer Andree. But the most disturbing thing in that little book, full of pictures, was the two pages dedicated to the last Franklin expedition of the S.XIX, on that moment I thought that given the time on which this and others expeditions happened, few or any additional information could be obtained about it. I couldn´t imagine that after those two pages It would be a huge iceberg full of stories, unresolved misteries, anecdotes, etc. I believe that this iceberg, on the contrary than others, would continue growing instead melting.



miércoles, 11 de julio de 2012

ENCONTRÉ AL EREBUS/ I FIND THE EREBUS SHIP

Model of Erebus ship made by Robert Wilson.
Original location: http://www.finewaterline.com/pages/albums/rwilson/rwilson.htm
Model of Erebus ship made by Robert Wilson.
Original location: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php?t=17248
Permitidme el título sensacionalista, pero aquí está, lo encontré al fin. Congelado y abandoned en el ártico. La página web donde están esta y otras maquetas similares de barcos es una maravilla. Concretamente encontrar al Erebus así representado me parece una idea de lo más original. La maqueta es una preciosidad y el artista, Robert Wilson, un virtuoso, sin duda alguna, el efecto del hielo sobre el casco parece real y el tamaño es increíble.

Forgive me the sensationalist title, but here you have her. I found it at last. Frozen and abandoned in the arctic. The web page where it is with other similar models is marvelous. Particularly finding the Erebus so represented seem to me a very original idea. The model is beautiful and the artist, Robert Wilson, a virtous, without any doubt, the effect of the ice over the ship´s hull seems real and the size is incredible. 
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