Kara Sea

A ship with coal ought to also have been there, but it did not arrive up to the time that the Fram, having shipped the dogs, was compelled to leave.

She would soon be in the Kara Sea, where a year would have to be spent if she were caught in the ice.

The season was passing rapidly, and no time could be lost if the Kara Sea were to be passed before winter set in, so the anchor was weighed, and the Fram steamed away without her extra supply of coal.

On August 4, the Kara Sea was reached.

The ice, although not heavy enough to prevent further progress, with the adverse currents caused considerable delays, and the crew utilized their enforced leisure by visiting the neighboring land and laying in a store of fresh meat.

They were successful in obtaining reindeer venison and ducks, and it was here also that the first bear was killed.

A ship with coal ought to also have been there, but it did not arrive up to the time that the Fram, having shipped the dogs, was compelled to leave.

She would soon be in the Kara Sea, where a year would have to be spent if she were caught in the ice.

The season was passing rapidly, and no time could be lost if the Kara Sea were to be passed before winter set in, so the anchor was weighed and the Fram steamed away without her extra supply of coal.

On August 4, the Kara Sea was reached.

The ice, although not heavy enough to prevent further progress, with the adverse currents caused considerable delays, and the crew utilized their enforced leisure by visiting the neighboring land and laying in a store of fresh meat.

They were successful in obtaining reindeer venison and ducks, and it was here also that the first bear was killed.

The forecast for this video is anything but predictable.

The year is 1893, and Norwegian Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his three-masted schooner are stopped dead in Russia's Kara Sea.

As if held by some mysterious force, he wrote in his expedition diaries.

He was unable to move his ship.

And marine water is actually growing really, really fast.

In fact, the Kara Sea in the Russian Arctic has warmed 6.7 degrees in 40 years.

And that's a significant warming that's going to have all sorts of biological and chemical effects.

But one of it is being able to absorb less CO2.

But the sailing masters of the company tried in vain to find a passage in this direction to the east.

Their ships reached as far as the Kara Sea at about the point where the present boundary of European Russia separates it from Siberia.

Beyond this extended countless leagues of impassable ice and the rock-bound desolation of northern Asia.

It remained to seek a passage in the opposite direction by way of the Arctic seas that lay above America.

The adventures of Nansen and his men in this enterprise are so well known as scarcely to need recital.

A stout wooden vessel of four hundred tons, the Fram, or the Forwards, was specially constructed to withstand the grip of the polar ice.

In eighteen ninety-three, she sailed from Norway and made her way by the Kara Sea to the New Siberian Islands.

In October, the Fram froze into the ice, and there she remained for three years, drifting slowly forwards in the heart of the vast mass.

Interest in our far north had to be enforced upon the Russian Geographical Society from abroad.

In the years 1869 to 1871, the bold Norwegian seal hunters had quite unexpectedly opened the Kara Sea to navigation.

To our extreme astonishment we learned one day at the Society that the sea which lies between the island of Novaya Zemlya and the Siberian coast, and which we used confidently to describe in our writings as an ice cellar permanently stocked with ice, had been entered by a number of small Norwegian schooners and crossed by them in all directions.

Even the wintering place of the famous Dutchman Barents, which we believed to be concealed forever from the eyes of man by ice fields hundreds of years old, had been visited by these adventurous Norsemen.

Exceptional seasons and an exceptional state of the ice, was what our elder navigators said.

But to a few of us it was quite evident that, with their small schooners and their small crews, the bold Norwegian hunters, who feel at home amid the ice, had ventured to pierce the floating ice which usually bars the way to the Kara Sea, while the commanders of government ships, hampered by the responsibilities of the naval service, had never risked doing so.

A general interest in Arctic exploration was awakened by these discoveries.

In fact, it was the seal hunters who opened the new era of Arctic enthusiasm which culminated in Nordenskiöld's circumnavigation of Asia, in the permanent establishment of the northeastern passage to Siberia, in Perry's discovery of North Greenland, and in Nansen's Fram expedition.

The signal was sharp, then gone, then echoing back in faint doubles.

The coding triggered half-buried memories of stories my father used to tell, about the old listening posts on the Kara Sea, the silent bases seeded across the ice like teeth.

As I triangulated, a thin thread of understanding began to pull.

The coordinates, 1970s issue, passed through a cipher only someone who'd served in both German and Soviet units would remember, didn't just match the sector.

A ship with coal ought to also have been there, but it did not arrive up to the time that the Fram, having shipped the dogs, was compelled to leave.

She would soon be in the Kara Sea, where a year would have to be spent if she were caught in the ice.

The season was passing rapidly, and no time could be lost if the Kara Sea were to be passed before winter set in.

So the anchor was weighed, and the Fram steamed away without her extra supply of coal.

On August 4th, the Kara Sea was reached.

The ice, although not heavy enough to prevent further progress, with the adverse currents caused considerable delays, and the crew utilized their enforced leisure by visiting the neighboring land and laying in a store of fresh meat.

They were successful in obtaining reindeer venison and ducks, and it was here also that the first bear was killed.