Sea Ice and Pack Ice Determines Arctic Cruising
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we're supposed to have a land Excursion this morning it's mirinberg at the very Northern tip of spitsbergen but the ship has encountered pack ice as we're heading north
this morning's Excursion is canceled and we don't know what's going to be happening for afternoon
the captain's been really quite normal so our original plan of course was to come up into the northwest corner at four o'clock this morning
here's to the 79 degrees the closest I'm ever going to get to the North Pole
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http://www.TravelsWithSheila.com Smeerenburg was on the proposed schedule for today, located in northwest Svalbard and originally the center of whaling operations in the north by Dutch and Danish whalers. (Smeerenburg in Dutch means "blubber town.") An optional snowshoeing excursion was also planned on landing to a memorial erected in 1906. Smeerenburg is a historical site that remembers whalers who lost their lives in the 17th and 18th centuries while working in extreme Arctic conditions. Sadly, sea ice prevented the ship from reaching its objective at 80 degrees north (considered a number to celebrate), approximately 600 miles from the North Pole. We spent the day visiting the bridge, watching ice flow by and eating as the Captain did his best to navigate North. The ship did reach 79 degrees north which really wasn't of great importance to us but glasses were raised in a toast to 79 degrees. Oh well, as I always say, you win some, you lose some...