Icebound NorthWestPassage: To Greenland!
Sep 30, 2004 08: 59 EST
This year the ice at the islands is substantially thinner then last year, and "Dagmar Aaen" makes a good passage North West. The temperatures dropped, but the passage was ice free and the team decided to speed into the Lancaster Sound.
Sunday they finally reached the east exit of the passage, but must go around the Bylot-island to escape new ice. Yesterday the crew arrived Pond Inlet:
"It was a lot of hard work until we arrived the Pond Inlet. We had to deviate a few miles to escape ice around the Bylot island. Pond Inlet is 525 kilometers SouthEast of Resolute as the crow flies and 883 kilometer NorthEast from Yellowknife. The original name reads "Mittimatalik" but it was renamed after astronomer John Pond.
We said good bye to Ian Balmer, who is heading back to Australia and to Doug Star, who is needed in Cambridge Bay. Birgit Radebold came on board replacing Ian. On Wednesday evening we hope to set sail for Greenland, hopefully well out off the ice. The next goal is Sisimiut on the west coast of Greenland."
Arved Fuchs is the Captain of the "Dagmar Aaen", continuing her sail after overwintering in the northern polar region of Canada, on Victoria Island. Last September, the North West Passage was impossible and the Dagmar Aaen was forced to overwinter in Cambridge Bay. Now the crew of 12 are out on another attempt, currently heading for Greenland.
100th attempt without the help of icebreakers
100 years after the discovery of the North West Passage by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, this year’s expedition will be the 100th to attempt to navigate the Passage without the help of ice breakers. If successful, Arved Fuchs and the Dagmar Aaen will then have made a complete circumnavigation of the northern polar region. In 2002 he sailed the North East Passage along the Siberian coast.
Image compiled by ExWeb.
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