Kapitan Khlebnikov enters the ice.
Do you subsribe to our Twitter posts – This Day in Polar History? A polar factoid is sent to my phone every day. Today I was reminded that William Scoresby was born on this day. He was a whaler scientist, who according to Andrew Lambert, knew the Northwest Passage was impassable long before Sir John Franklin began his quest. Had The Powers that Be – John Barrow in particular – listened to Scoresby, a whole lot of men wouldn’t have died.
Khlebnikov will transit the Northwest Passage in 2010, with Andrew Lambert as special guest. I’m sure he will mention the story some time during the transit.
William Scoresby is the man after whom Scoresbysund in Greenland is named. The KK will visit Scoresbysund in 2011 – that will be an End of an Era voyage.
Speaking of End of an Era, as I seem to do a lot these days – the Canadian debut of filmmaker John Murray’s – special guest on Arctic Passage in 2011 – Broken Tail’s Last Journey occured last night on David’ Suzuki’s The Nature of Things.
Have I mentioned that I love my job!
