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The ends of the Earth: Arctic journey reveals beauty, climate change reality


Jack McClintock
Correspondent
Call me, Ishmael. In the summer of 2006 a research vessel named Akademik Ioffe cruised the High Arctic gathering oceanographic information about the Polar Ocean floor. It was a fast double-hulled Russian spy ship that had been sold to a commercial enterprise after the fall of the Soviet Union. My wife and I took a berth aboard the Ioffe to pursue my dream of exploring territory in that legendary part of the world. We drove north out of Worcester for seven hours to the capital city of Ottawa in the province of Ontario, Canada; then took a seven-hour jet flight due north to Resolute Island in the province of Nunavut. A small barren bit of land, Resolute was named to commemorate heroic exploration related to the search for a North West Passage in the frozen wastes above North America. Barely a dot on the map, it lies nearly 1,000 miles above Hudson Bay and occupies some of the most inhospitable real estate on Earth. ....

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Icebreaker leaves Australia after 150 Antarctica trips


Icebreaker leaves Australia after 150 Antarctica trips
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 11, 2020 at 9:42 pm EDT
HOBART, Australia The giant orange icebreaker Aurora Australis left Australia for the final time on Saturday after more than 150 trips to Antarctica. Next stop: a shipyard in Dubai, where it will be refurbished and either leased or sold.
The Australian Antarctic Division announced earlier this year that after 30 years of sailing to the frozen continent for research and to support Australian bases in Antarctica, the Aurora Australis would be replaced by a larger ship.
The 95-meter (312-foot) Aurora Australis was built in Newcastle north of Sydney and launched in September 1989. It undertook its maiden voyage to Heard Island, an external Australian territory in Antarctica, in 1990. ....

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