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15. This past week Northabout came through the same area

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2016, 08:40 PM

Sep 2016

They encountered almost no ice in the southern part of the Passage and have now passed into Baffin Bay on their way home. They will have fully circumnavigated the Arctic in one summer when they get back to Bristol.

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Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt [View all] malaise Sep 2016 OP

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