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The Yacht Northabout Completes Northeast and Northwest Passages in a Single Season

By · On September 29, 2016

The yacht Northabout left Bristol, United Kingdom, in June and circled the North Pole in an anticlockwise direction. Its exit from Canada’s Lancaster Sound signaled the successful navigation of both sea routes. David Hempleman-Adams initiated the project to highlight Arctic sea-ice decline. For so long an impenetrable barrier for mariners, the NEP and NWP have increasingly opened up in recent years as temperatures in the polar north have warmed. Read More

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