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The NW Passage was ice-free this season

  • 13 Sep 2016 19:59
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    Relevant XKCD.
  • 13 Sep 2016 15:22
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    the Northpole was sailed around as early as the summer of 2010 when Børge Ousland and crew did it in a Corsair 31 trimaran. I watched a TV program from that trip. It appeared to be very little ice, and the trimaran relied on speed and little draught as it was way too light to work as an ice-braker. It seemed that the worst "ice" they met was on the passing north of Russia  -  in the form of local bureaucracy...

    Below is a link to a site which shows the route they took. The polar projection of the map is interesting.

    Arne

    https://www.devold.com/protection-no/aktuelt/aktuelt-2010/historisk-seilas-av-borge-ousland/183/0/ 

     

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  • 13 Sep 2016 14:33
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    "The Polar Ocean Challenge successfully completed their quest to sail the North East Passage and North West Passage in one season. The North West Passage was completed in an astonishing 14 days due to the fact that it was almost totally ice free. They encountered ice only twice in their 1800 mile NW Passage part of the voyage. This highlights an extraordinary loss of sea ice in the Arctic in the 30 years that David Hempleman-Adams has been coming to the area. He said, ‘ whilst we are all delighted to have succeeded, it is extremely worrying to see this lack of ice so starkly ‘ The objective of the expedition was to raise awareness of the change in the fragile climate in the Arctic. They left Lancaster Sound at the end of the NW Passage at 19.18 UTC on 12th September and are headed for Greenland."

    - http://polarocean.co.uk/
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