Young Larry was a boat that traveled from Ireland to Alaska between 2010-2011, crewed by Máire Breathnach, Andrew Wilkes, and Dermot O'Riordan. The boat visited many coastal communities along western Greenland and Canada's Arctic coast, as well as Alaska, documenting local culture, wildlife, and landscape. Key stops included Nuuk, Ilulissat, and Upernavik in Greenland; Pond Inlet, Gjoa Haven, and Cambridge Bay in Nunavut, Canada; and Nome and Kodiak Island in Alaska. The crew observed Inuit traditions, whale and seal hunts, arctic wildlife like polar bears and musk oxen,

1. Young Larry in the
Northwest Passage 2010
Sibéal Turraoin

2. – Roald Amundsen (1872—1928)
"Adventure is just bad planning.”
From Oqaatsut (Rode Bay) to Saqqaq

3. The journey
27 May 2010 – 23 October 2010
Dungarvan – Dingle – Nuuk – Upernavik – Pond Inlet – Tuktoyaktuk – Nome - Kodiak
8000nm (approx)

4. Young Larry, from Upernavik Kujalleq (Søndre Upernavik) to Kangersuatsiaq (Prøven), Greenland

5. The crew: Máire Breathnach, Andrew Wilkes, Dermot O’Riordan

7. Dingle – June 2010

8. Shaman - Arctic Nations Summit; Santa’s Postbox, Nuuk Cathedral; Blok P, which held !% of the population, Nuuk (Godthab)̊

9. Locals, Maniitsoq (Sukkertoppen)

10. Tunu (Hamborgersund)

11. Church and whalebone arch, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg) Fishing, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg)

12. Summer semi-sod house, Sisimiut (Holsteinborg); Man in national dress and church, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

13. Reindeer antlers on a home, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

14. Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

15. Puppies, Aasiaat (Egedesminde)

16. Humpback whale, Disko Bay

17. Iceberg, Ilulissat Kangerlua

18. Brash ice and icebergs, Ilulissat Kangerlua

19. Fishermen, Ilulissat Kangerlua

20. Give way to sledge; 18th
century Zion Church (Zions Kirke); Workshop; drying fish; Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)

21. Whalehunt and puppies, Upernavik Kujalleq (Søndre Upernavik)

22. Upernavik at midnight

23. Boy, Upernavik

24. Aorrussaarssuk

26. Canadian ice charts, Baffin and High Arctic areas

27. Crossing the Davis Straits between Greenland and Canada, Nunavut and Canadian flags, Preparing for whale hunt, Pond Inlet, Nunavut

28. Pond Inlet, Nunavut

29. Whale hunt permit signing, Pond Inlet, Nunavut

30. Pond Inlet, Nunavut

31. Eclipse Sound, Nunavut

32. Remains of winter shelter; graves; Beechey Island, Nunavut

33. Sibéal and Arctic hare; seal on the ice; polar bear swimming at midnight; Beechey Island, Nunavut

34. Church Window, Church of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Gjoa Haven

35. Boy in traditional parkas; Leo and his work, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

36. Drummer, Gjoa Haven; and Inuit sports, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

37. Traditional parkas, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

38. Girl and puppies, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

39. Fishing, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

40. DEW Line station, Bernard Harbour, Nunavut

41. Smoking Hills, Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories

42. Pingo (landlocked iceberg) and caribou, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

43. Ground squirrel outside the old Hudson Bay Trading Company site, Tuktoyaktuk

44. Children playing at the RC Mission, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

45. Aurora borealis, Hershel Island, Northwest Territories

47. Big Diomede Island (Russia) and Little Diomede Island (USA)

48. Gold dredger, Nome, Alaska

49. Musk ox, Nome, Alaska

50. Bald eagle and sealion, Dutch Harbour, Amaknak Island, Unalaska, Alaska

51. Russian Orthodox Church, Unalaska, Alaska

52. Alaskan Peninsula, Alaska

53. Buffalo and road sign, Kodiak Island, Alaska

54. www.sibealturraoin.ie • instagram.com/sibeal_turraoin
Upernaviks Isfjord, Qeqertaq & Savigssuaq