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unusual facts about pack ice



Tiksi

In August 1901, Russian Arctic ship Zarya headed across the Laptev Sea, searching for the legendary Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) but was soon blocked by floating pack ice in the New Siberian Islands.

Tina Sjögren

On 29 May 2002, just four months after having returned from Antarctica, they reached the North Pole completely autonomously at record speed (118 days), and also transmitted the first ever live broadcast of satellite images and sounds from the Arctic pack ice.


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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea leaving the men stranded on the pack ice.

George Murray Levick

Prevented by pack ice from embarking on the Terra Nova in February 1912, Levick and the other five members of the party (Victor Campbell, Raymond Priestley, George Abbott, Harry Dickason, and Frank Browning) were forced to overwinter on Inexpressible Island in a cramped ice cave.

Januarius MacGahan

The expedition got as far as Peel Sound in the Canadian Arctic before it met pack ice and was forced to return.

Shore Leave

Shore lead, oceanographic term for a waterway opening between pack ice and shore

SS British Corporal

Due to thick fog and pack ice, British Corporal left the convoy to return to Iceland, joining Convoy QP 18 for the return and arriving at Akureyri on 18 April.

SS Empire Bard

She sailed from Hvalfjörður on 8 April and put into Akureyri on 13 April due to heavy pack ice and dense fog.