Why international Arctic researchers are eager to get trapped in sea ice

The Alfred Wegener Institute's Polarstern research icebreaker plans to freeze itself into Arctic sea ice for the winter, following Fridtjof Nansen's path, on a research mission.

By Dermot Cole February 4, 2019
2023

In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen set out on one of the great expeditions in world history, deliberately trapping his ship in the ice to drift across the Arctic.

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