Yeva, in Pond Inlet

 

Ella Hibbert and the Yeva are waaaay above the Arctic Circle (latitude 66°33′45) now and are currently docked near the northern end of Baffin Island in the tiny, blink-and-you-miss-it Inuit village of Pond Inlet (72°42′). They left Greenland back on July 28, sailed across the Davis Strait to Baffin Island, Canada, and pulled into Pond Inlet earlier today.  

Pond Inlet, the village, is located on the south shore of a narrow strait, also called Pond Inlet, that separates Baffin Island from Bylot Island to the north. The strait that separates the west side of Bylot from Baffin Island is called Navy Board Inlet.

The Pond Inlet village (or Mittimatalik to the Inuit) may be tiny, but it does have a few shops, an airstrip, and, most importantly, a couple of docks. No word yet on how long they'll stay in Pond Inlet before sailing across Canada via the Northwest Passage, but I suspect at least 24 hours for Hibbert to get some quality sleep after a week of navigating through the fog banks and between the icebergs in the Strait.  

Depending on sea ice and whether or not it's passable, one imagines that after leaving Pond Inlet, they'll sail north through Navy Board Inlet and then west through Lancaster Sound (Northwest Passage) south of Devon Island. The forecast for Pond Inlet has highs in the mid 40s and lows around freezing, with rain and possible snow coming in later this week.