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Monday, January 5, 2009

NOVA Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice - Future of the Passage - PBS

Nova
Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice
Tuesday, January 6, 7:00pm

CHANNEL 13 (KERA 13)
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An intriguing look at British explorer John Franklin's 1845 attempt to discover a route from Europe to the Pacific through the maze of islands in Arctic Canada, which featured a 129-man expedition sailing two retrofitted warships.

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NOVA | Arctic Passage | Future of the Passage | PBS
In recent years, in the wake of scientific reports of rapid melting in the Arctic, some have taken to declaring that the fabled Northwest Passage, sought for centuries by mariners and merchants, will soon be open for shipping, shaving thousands of miles
off trips that would otherwise have gone through the Panama Canal.

"Within a decade or two, climatologists predict, the route through the Arctic archipelago could be navigable year-round," states an editorial in The Toronto Star of April 5, 2004. Others suggest it's even more imminent. In September 2002, the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) said in a fund-raising letter that the Arctic ice cap was "melting so quickly that within the next 15 years it's likely that the once impassable Northwest Passage will be open to shipping all year round." (Read More)...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arctic/passage.html


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