places

My old homepage was predominantly visited by people looking explicitly for me. But there were a couple of exceptions, having mainly arrived via the route of google image search: people looking for certain places (or things) I happened to have posted some photos of. One of the most obscure of these places, Ikerasak, a tiny village buried deep inside some Greenlandic fjord, did indeed get the most hits. Another somewhat popular search was ‘rillenkarren’, a rare rock formation found mostly on limestone, and which I expect to cause delight almost exclusively with Australian geomorphologists.

The upshot is: I want to put up a couple of pages that are concerned with these places that people have come looking for to my website. With photos, and if I get around to it, some text as well. This whole entreprise might take some time, since the vast majority of my photos is still back home in Germany, with no chance of being scanned in in the near future.

My entry on Canaima in Venezuela (incidentally, the location of the beautiful waterfall scenery that adorns my hompage as header) has already come into existence, even though some (stylistic and contentual) improvements will need to be applied to it in the near future. Fotos are not yet included and will follow, even though unfortunately I will not anytime soon have access to my amazing pictures of the 1994 trip (which include a more-than-surreal helicopter flight over the spectacular Auyantepui plateau).

Some of the furhter places I have in mind are the following: Ikerasak (of course), the Faeroe Islands, Landmannalaugar (Iceland), and Lluc (Mallorca), where a nice display of rillenkarren can be found.

By the way, if you have no clue where these places are, be sure to check my frequently asked questions…