David McEown painting at Scoresby Sund (photo by Daisy Gilardini)


Scoresby Sund (watercolor, 8x22) by David McEown

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Greenland is one of the best places in the world to see Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights, a phenomenon caused by the collision between particles electrically charged by the sun and atoms in the earth's atmosphere. The Inuit people believed that when the Northern Lights were dancing in the sky, the dead were playing football with a walrus skull.

Charted by William Scoresby in 1822, Scoresby Sund is the longest fjord in the world and one of the deepest. A fjord is a long, narrow estuary with steep sides, made when a glacial valley is flooded by the sea.