Our intrepid Arctic explorers have finally been re-supplied, which one would imagine must raise the spirits of the expeditioners. Let's check in on one of their latest posts:
When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,Only two months and 920 kilometres to go.
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and . . . die.
UPDATE: The latest report: "Team cover an impressive 6.5km on a perfect Arctic day. Clear skies, -34C, aquamarine pressure ridges and smooth ice-pans. Happy days....."
By my calculations, the "impressive 6.5 km on a perfect Arctic day" is about half of what is required for them to make the distance.
4 comments:
Yes, but as you go up north the longitudes are converging to zero, so 6.5 Km is a lot longer up there then lets say in Melbourne.
Bert
920km to go?
CFS Alert is about 800km from the Pole.
Cheers
Maybe they are changing the end-point, minicapt, but it says different at the bottom of this page: http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/routemap
Interesting route, because it covers one of the sub operating areas of the Arctic; their ice-measuring can be compared to the sub data.
Of minor interest perhaps, the supply runs are by: http://www.borekair.com/ possibly out of Eureka (described as "The Garden Spot of the Arctic"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka,_Nunavut
Cheers
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