Sailing the Sund

And no, that is not spelled incorrectly.  Of course, if you want to play with the English, you will see this area listed as Prince Christian Sound. There might well be a difference, I am just willing, whenever possible, to give deference to home country naming conventions. In any case, I will spare you the long, involved history behind the Danes, the Nords, and the Swedes in the area – the end result of which is that Greenland today “belongs” to Denmark. The bit of map below where you can see the green marker along the sound is taken from OpenStreetMaps.

I do remember sailing through this area in 2017, and I think we were leaving Qaqortoq rather than approaching it. In any case, we headed in along this particular passage in southeastern Greenland. The passage isn’t all that wide but seems to be deep all the way down.

Much of the rock appears volcanic to me. –

and then there are the receding glaciers, strange shaped icebergs, and hours of fun on a still day where I could stand outside forward on Deck 5 away from most of the people just enjoying the slow and careful sail through.

It was mostly a westward sail, then a sharp turn to the left to continue on our way

I have dozens more photos of glaciers, tiny trickles of waterfalls, and icebergs if you are interested. We exited out of the Sund right before supper time…  I woke just after midnight to be treated to about 2 minutes of Northern Lights. Not enough to haul out a camera, much less move to an outside location on the ship.