Map

Nothing says exploration quite like a map or more properly since we were at sea, a chart. I consulted the charts regularly in the chart room which is--no surprise--a room for the charts or maps. It was also the room for 24/7 coffee and cookies.

In addition to consulting the ship's charts, I collected lat/long information to mark my data collection sites and other significant stops on the Expedition. Since I didn't have a GPS unit, I took a photo of the lat/long on the ship's equipment then cross referenced the photos with their time/date stamp to organize them in a spreadsheet. Not an efficient system but it worked.

When I returned I used this information to make an annotated map using My Maps on Google. I didn't map much of the final leg of the journey which was mostly Iceland. Over the course of the weeks, the Expedition had become about the ice. Once we were in Iceland we were out of the ice and therefore I sort of lost my documenting mojo.

Thank you to Captain Oliver and all the crew for the open bridge policy that made collecting lat/long information easy.