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Ungava Adventure
The Payne Lake Project will be undertaking an extended archaeological survey of Payne Lake in central northern Ungava. This effort is headed by George Sollish, a dedicated amateur historian from New York who is fascinated by the area and its reports of Norse settlement centuries ago. (See Che-Mun Outfit 62) he has conducted some research in 1999 and will be retracing the trans-Ungava 1948 Rousseau route with attention being paid to archaeological sites for the first time.
In August 2002 they will place a total of 12 paddlers in Ungava for approximately three weeks: six each in the traverse party (three canoes) and the lake survey party (two freighters). Much more info, including a plea for support, can be found on their Web site at www.autogear.net/paynelake.htm.
Their Mission from the Web site:
More than a millennium ago the Norse established a colony on the western coast of Greenland which survived for over 400 years. We know that during that time the Norse Greenlanders sent expeditions south to Newfoundland andpossibly beyond, north to high Arctic Ellesmere Island, and west to the Labrador. The intriguing question, whether they also followed Hudson Strait into Canada's interior, has invited much wishful thinking, numerous hoaxes and, for almost a quarter century, little of the careful fieldwork necessary to advance the inquiry. In 1998 the Payne Lake Project was founded to address this deficiency.
This story first appeared in Che-Mun Outfit 104 in 2001.
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