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unusual facts about Northern Sea Route


Northern Sea Route

In September 2010, two yachts completed circumnavigation of the Arctic: Børge Ousland's team aboard The Northern Passage, and Sergei Murzayev's team in the Peter I.


Shmidt Point

Named in 1954 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Professor Otto Schmidt, director of the Arctic Institute at Leningrad in 1930-32, head of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route in 1932-39, and leader of many Arctic expeditions.


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