Anyone who’s seen An Inconvenient Truth (or, by this point, anyone who’s heard other people talk about it) knows that global warming is already causing changes on our planet. New West recently featured writer/filmmaker Eric Ristau’s article and short film on his exploration of a “new” island off Greenland.

Renowned Arctic explorer Dennis Schmitt, 60, who is credited with discovering the Northern-most point of land on Earth—also an island on the coast of Greenland—had formed the expedition.  A year earlier on a French voyage, Schmitt had sailed into a Liverpool Land fjord and made a startling discovery:  a rugged peninsula, which he had once explored on dogsled, was no longer connected to the mainland.  The isthmus, it turns out, was an ice sheet, which had crumbled into the sea, creating a new channel and a new island.  Schmitt immediately began planning for a return trip to explore and document the island, which, in reality, was a Caledonian-era formation nearly 425 million years old.

It’s definitely worth checking out the film.

And who knows…maybe someday soon an explorer will stumble upon Atlantis.

Posted by Alisa Opar on Jan 25, 2007 at 5:11 PM
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