Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
So rounded the corner and the second to last glacier before there are no more glaciers
on our way out and there are at least oneāone very nice island anyway--that has been revealed
by the receding glacier. This is what I've been looking for, for the last three or four
days so I'm very happy. I think the tradition is you put a stake in or make a can and put
your claim in a tin can next to it. I'm doing as much as I can to get it right.
I might even write it on the can cause I've got indelible pen which they probably didn't have.
We're going to plot the island and work out its exact positioning and size, it's height and
going to take photographs of it, and then when we get back to England I'll try and register
it with the governor. We'll see. I'm going to walk the perimeter I think on my island
in gear, take a couple of photo--well, I'll take the photos like this...
(My first island ascent!) I was happy to stand on a bit of stone
in the water and call it my island, but this is like a proper thing--you know--you can
have a hance on this. (It's a great island!) But yeah, no, I'm very happy--it looks great.
(How solid is...Oh my god, it's permafrost!) The poetry for me is, this land, its newly revealed
(...see the most important bits...) It wasn't in the last map so in the last five years, that land
is new. We were the first people to stand on it--I was the first person to stand on it!
I like the idea of now of taking it through to a ridiculous level--to try and to do everything
as absolutely as possible of registering it, and naming it, drawing the map, making the
post cards. And then the finished piece will be a drawing together of those things and then
somehow trying to make a visual thing.