Reading a great book about polar explorers from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, probably not a book to be reading when on a ship because of the amount of shipwrecks and all the disasters that happen to the various explorers, great read all the same.
I was working at a chart agents in Sweden a few years ago and had to organise charts for the Icebreaker Odens expedition to the North Pole, seen below doing icebreaking in the Gulf of Bothnia last year. The charts were Canadian and US charts, but the area around the pole doesn’t really have a detailed sea chart, theres no point, or there is the North Pole, but apart from that it’s just ice. So they use a plotting chart. Oden’s and a US icebreaker called Healy’s expedition is well documented on a few sites like…..HOTRAX05 and ARCTIC EXPLORERS and SCIENCE DAILY and there are tons more. Oden was the first non nuke ice breaker to reach the pole. It is also a sign of the decrease in ice thickness at the pole that such an expedition was possible.
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