Video retrospective 2021 in 2 minutes
During the holidays, our image manager Pascal Baumgartner took the time to make you a little 120-second montage (or almost!) that retraces the events of this rather special year for us. Enjoy it!
Participation in the ArcticNet Science Forum
Our Scientific Coordinator Laure Müller is participating tonight at 9pm (GMT +1.) in a webinar entitled "Sailboats as Research Platforms" as part of the "ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting 2021" ArcticNet is a Network of Centres of Excellence in Canada that brings together scientists, engineers and other professionals from the human, natural and social sciences [...]
Photo exhibition in Geneva
To all photo, travel and ice enthusiasts, we are pleased to invite you to the opening of the photo exhibition organized with our partner Photo-Verdaine and Olympus. See you this Saturday, December 11th from 10am at Photo Verdaine at 6, pl. des Eaux-Vives in Geneva. The photos on display were taken during the first [...]
Heading north! – 2021 sailing season in Greenland on video
The film that retraces this season of navigation in the far north is here ! Put on your warmest down jacket and dive with the crew in the second season of "The Arctic Expedition". With more than 3'600 miles (about 6'700 kilometers) sailed in 2021, the Mauritius continues its multidisciplinary expedition centered around three [...]
Exhibition “Sillages” at Espace Mora Mora
Come and discover from November 30th 2021 at the Espace mora-mora some of the original works published in the first volume of "Sillages": drawings, engravings, logbooks, etc. A unique opportunity to soak up the spray of the Great North, close to home, and to jump, for a while at least, on board the Arctic [...]
Thank you evening to the supporters
Yesterday was the Fondation Pacifique's traditional annual support evening. An important moment to thank all the partners and supporters without whom this beautiful story would not exist. As a bonus, a photo of (almost) the entire Pacifique operational team in Geneva. And even if they weren't with us, a big thought for all the [...]
Qeqertarsuaq under the snow
Some images from the land of the small community of Greenland under the snow, wintering place of this second navigation season. Images : Fondation Pacifique - Léa Dillard
Conference on microplastic pollution
In parallel with the redeployment of the exhibition "In the plastic footsteps of Magellan" at the CFP Arts in Geneva, the Fondation Pacifique is continuing its awareness-raising activities with students at the school. And in particular tomorrow, with a conference articulated specifically around the problem of plastic pollution and animated in collaboration with the [...]
Galya Morrell and Ole Jorgen Hammeken on board
In addition to the exceptional encounters with wildlife, there are also those unexpected encounters, such as the one between the crew of the Mauritius and the explorer and Arctic artist Galya Morrell and Ole Jorgen Hammeken, Inuit explorer and actor who played the lead role in the movie "Le voyage d'Inuk". Just goes to [...]
The wintering team
A small wink to the wonderful team (Pere Valera Taltavull, Léa Dillard and Emilien Bertholet) who continue to prepare the Mauritius for its first wintering. If the sailing season is over for the moment, it is a new phase that begins for the sailboat with the objective of a first polar winter in Greenland [...]