Karukinka Association
“The last land of people”
Since 2014, the Karukinka association has been dedicated to exploration, scientific research and artistic creation in the polar and subpolar areas.
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This year, Karukinka is celebrating its 10th anniversary!
Founded on 27th January 2014, Karukinka is a non-profit association based in the Loire-Atlantique Département. It unites members from different horizons around one same purpose: explore to better understand, provide documentation, raise awareness, support, defend and create meaning and links in the same amount.
On the occasion of this anniversary and with its members’ and collaborators’ shape-shifting support, Karukinka is expanding its actions through the organisation of an exhibition in Nantes, the arrival of a larger sailing ship (Milagro) and the implementation of expeditions and residence of scientific and artistic research ashore and at sea : in Scotland this Spring and Summer 20224, before reaching the canals of Patagonia on a sailing ship for the ultimate stopover of our expedition Cape North– Cape Horn, which started in 2023 and supported by the Ministry of Culture.
On this occasion, we will sail from Brittany to Patagonia, over 8000 nautical miles, between Octobre 2024 and January 2025. If you want to participate to one or several of these stopovers under the section « sailing club » of our association, click here. This ship now gives us all the freedom needed to pursue our actions and research at the south of Magellan Strait, we don’t have to go charting anymore!
So, feel free to tell us about your craziest projects on shore or at sea with a sailing ship, in Patagonia, Antarctica, South Georgia, …
Anybody who is passionate is welcome to explore and imagine new adventures!
Live unique experiences:
from Brittany to Patagonia
Departing from Saint Nazaire (France), the sailing ship Milagro and her crew are sailing to the extreme south of Patagonia.
The 2025 programme includes several explorations mixing sailing, research and walks with Damien Treutenaere (Captain 200UMS and Sailing Instructor), Sébastien Pons (sailor) and Lauriane Lemasson (First Mate and Scientist)
If you want to discover the ship Milagro, a 20m ketch sailing ship and the floating base camps of our projects, click here
Join the adventure on board even if you don’t have any specific project, as a beginner: you will be part of the implementation of scientific research and artistic creation projects which have a social impact at the antipodes of our planet.
Explore together for a better world
Unite
Experts and passionate people from different universes, to demonstrate, together, that the multidisciplinary nature of the approaches leading to discovery and encounters, and that she restores the initiative to those who have long lost it.
Develop partnerships of a sponsorship nature by following our ethics and values.
Support
Be a source of connection and work with students, researchers, laboratories, artists and creators, our experiences with onshore and sailing expeditions in Arctic and Patagonia.
Promote scientific research and artistic creation by means of partnerships, by means of terrain logistics, financing, administrative work, scholarship and implementation of research and creation venues.
Raise awareness
In the public, of environmental and society stakes by means of conferences, exhibitions, documentaries, workshops and resources fitted to everyone, and illustrating the interdependence between man and his environment under any latitude.
Share the existing solutions to help the indigenous populations and reduce the negative effects of maritime and terrestrial exploration activities.
Initiate
And form various actors, onshore and at sea, in activities such as sailing (with our club affiliated to the Sailing French Federation), onshore expeditions, land search in collaboration with researchers, participation in the creation, etc. And more generally, to promote the knowledge and skills of the members of the association
Ongoing research and projects
Cape North – Cape Horn sailing expedition
Carried out thanks to the support of the French Ministry of Culture under the New Worlds programme, this expedition spanning several years started in 2023 with the aim to link two capes, the North and the Horn and meet those who live in these far north and far south of our planet.
For several months during summer 2023, research was undertaken in the fjords of Cape North, in Norway (Finnmark), to study several aspects of the relation with man and surroundings.
This first stop made it possible to create a sound and photographic exhibition, as well as various communications.
In 2024, research continue, this time aboard the Milagro sailing ship
Our activities
Scientific research
Since 2011
The association gathers a maximum of disciplines to expand its knowledge of the austral lands, and boreal recently: anthropology, ethnology, biology, physical geography, geology, weather forecast, climatology, medicine, ethnomusicology, etc. We encourage and help all students/researchers, as much as possible, to come over for their research (measuring and/or sampling).
Artistic creation and publishing
France – Patagonia – Finnmark
In parallel to the sports and scientific areas, we develop artistic projects, occasionally in venues where image, sound, travel telling, and poetry coexist. These ways of expression are non-exhaustive and hold an essential place in the editorial frame of Karukinka Editions, in relation to the objectives of the association and giving birth to various shapes and contents.
Onshore and at sea explorations
Trekking and sailing
For most of the land missions, the association organises expeditions and internships for its members, under the Sailing French Federation. They aim at discovering the territories explored alongside the specialists of the places and thus participate in the financing of the association’s philanthropic activities.
Multidisciplinary projects from north to south
from north to south
Karukinka worked for the implementation of four major projects: three scientific expeditions (2013, 2018 and 2023) and the invitation of three members of the Selk’nam and Yagan people over to France (2019), in relation with the Haizebegi festival.
We are currently enlivened by a large-scale expedition: a mission of several years to link Cape North to Cape Horn on a sailing ship, with the aim to study the mapping and perception of the lands by Sami, Yagan, Selk’nam and Haush people.
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