By Neil Fisher, Vancouver Aquarium videographer and photographer

Gjoa Haven, also known as Uqsuqtuuq (meaning “place of plenty blubber”), is situated on the southeast coast of King William Island, Nunavut. In 1903, while transiting the Northwest Passage, famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen wintered in Gjoa Haven, which he called “the finest little harbor in the world.” Gjoa Haven got its English name from Amundsen’s ship the Gjoa.

Last month, I travelled to Gjoa Haven with Eric Solomon, Vancouver Aquarium’s director of Arctic programs. We accompanied scientists from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and representatives of the Canadian Rangers on a unique data-gathering initiative known as the Canadian Rangers Ocean Watch program (CROW).

Here are a few photos that I captured along the way.

Photo credit for all photos in this post: Neil Fisher/Vancouver Aquarium.