A 160 Years Old Shipwreck In Northwest Passage - Global Warming Back Then? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Karl J. Hansen, klimabedrag.dk   
Friday, 30 July 2010 16:20

NWPCanadian archaeologists have found the wreck of a 422 ton British ship that made it though the Northwest Passage in 1850, but was finally locked by pack ice and abandoned the year after.  The finding has flamed up the issue of Canada's ownership of the passage; but what I find interesting is that the British 160 years ago at all attempted to cross the Northwest Passage.

In 2007 it was obvious to many that the waterway through the NWP in a near future could be a reliable route for commercial traffic.  The thought has gone on ice for a while, while temperatures and ice cover seems to be going back to earlier years average.

Maybe the warming trend in the arctic will begin again, who knows, and give us the same opportunities as the Vikings most likely enjoyed when it was way warmer in the area around Greenland and Canada.  I find the writing "The Last Viking" part II "West By North West" likely confirmation that you can have varying changes in ice cover from decade to decade and from century to century at the North West Passage.
 

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