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Scientists To Repeat 19th-Century Ship's Crossing Of Polar Ice Cap

Scientists To Repeat 19th-Century Ship's Crossing Of Polar Ice Cap

by The Daily Eye Team February 22 2017, 3:11 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

In 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarked on a mission of extraordinary boldness and ingenuity. He planned to become the first person to reach the north pole by allowing his wooden vessel, the Fram, to be engulfed by sea ice and pulled across the polar cap on an ice current. Ultimately, Nansen ended up abandoning the Fram and skiing hundreds of miles to a British base after he realised he was not on course to hit the pole, but the ship made it across the ice cap intact and the expedition resulted in groundbreaking scientific discoveries about the Arctic and weather patterns. Now, more than a century on, scientists are planning to retrace this epic voyage for the first time, in the most ambitious Arctic research expedition to date.

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