While sketchbooks won't be standard issue for the professional artists on the Disko Bay Expedition, David Buckland says creative freedom will be encouraged.

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Between 2006 and 2010 it sold licences to firms including ExxonMobil, Chevron and Cairn Energy, which recently found traces of oil in western Disko Bay.

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The boss of Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, Jorn Skolv Nielsen, describes it as a big reason for the bureau's decision to open Greenland's western Disko Bay, where Cairn Energy drilled in 2010-11.

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Around midday Friday, the sturdy and ice-strengthened science research vessel, the "Grigory Mikheev, " will depart Kangerlussuaq in Greenland bound for Disko Bay, a location on the west coast that provides some of the starkest examples of the island's melting ice caps.

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