Arctic Mission

Author : Markus Rex
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771649490

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The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time by Markus Rex Pdf

​​For readers of Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Endurance, and other seafaring adventure stories comes a thrilling account of a 21st-century Arctic mission. “ A contemporary classic!”—Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal Passage “Show-stopping.”­—Publisher’s Weekly STARRED Review The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time vividly describes one year aboard the Polarstern, a powerful ice-breaker ship that journeyed deep into the Arctic in 2019, carrying over 100 scientists and crew known as the MOSAiC Expedition. Hailing from across the world, they would become the largest expedition to ever survive a polar winter. Their purpose? To understand—and predict—the impacts of climate change on the Arctic. Written by the expedition’s leader, the renowned atmospheric scientist Markus Rex, this page-turner reads like a captain’s log of daily life aboard the Polarstern. Living in one of the most remote, dangerous, and electrifying places on earth, Rex describes incredible sights: polar bears playing with scientific equipment, Christmas parties in the bitter cold, frostbitten scientists, and hair-raising storms that threaten to break the Polarstern’s cables and send it flying across the ice. He also reveals breathtaking science from deep inside the sea ice. Filled with sobering, heart-warming, and bone-chilling moments, The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time is a testament to Rex’s extraordinary drive to save a precious ecosystem. It’s also an ode to a place that has beguiled sailors and explorers for centuries.

Author : JILL. BURRELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809070896

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ARCTIC MISSION. by JILL. BURRELL Pdf

Author : William F. Althoff
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Airships
ISBN : 1612510108

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Arctic Mission by William F. Althoff Pdf

"Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic in 1958, one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus would, if successful, reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration; an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole. The airships unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project, with the objective to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle, the sole military airship ever to do so, en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp in the Arctic Ocean. As 719 pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole, then without changing course logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic. Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout, and is a distinct contribution to naval literature."--Amazon.

Author : Katharina Weiss-Tuider
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771649575

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Mission: Arctic by Katharina Weiss-Tuider Pdf

For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken—and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing—fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme cold, and total darkness have always prevented scientists from uncovering its secrets. Until now. This science-based guide for middle readers follows the 2019 MOSAiC expedition on the largest expedition to the Arctic ever undertaken. On board the Polarstern, a powerful ice-breaker research vessel, more than five hundred scientists from all over the world turned their attention to this mysterious region. Their mission? To let their vessel freeze in the sea ice and drift towards the North Pole in order to study how the Arctic is changing, and how these changes will affect our world. Mission: Arctic features: Filled with photographs from the expedition Thrilling facts, illustrations, diagrams, and fact bars about the polar region The dangerous conditions the scientists endured, from freezing temperatures to terrifying storms and polar bears The important discoveries made on the mission Through this thrilling book, readers will discover the Arctic ice is not as permanent as we thought, and what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The knowledge gathered on the Polarstern has the power to determine our planet's future—if only we pay attention.

Author : Nancy Saxberg,Yukon Territory. Heritage Branch
Publisher : [Whitehorse] : Yukon Tourism, Heritage Branch
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : UOM:39015058854103

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The Archaeology and History of an Arctic Mission, Herschel Island, Yukon by Nancy Saxberg,Yukon Territory. Heritage Branch Pdf

This interpretation of the results of the excavation of an early twentieth-century refuse pit at St. Patrick's Anglican Mission, Pauline Covve, Herschel Island (off the north coast of Yukon), focusses on the evidence of the colonial process in the north and of the effects of the whaling industry.

Author : Leif Christian Jensen,Geir Hønneland
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857934741

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Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic by Leif Christian Jensen,Geir Hønneland Pdf

The Arctic has again become one of the leading issues on the international foreign policy agenda, in a manner unseen since the Cold War. Drawing on the perspectives of geo-politics and international law, this Handbook offers fresh insights and perspectives on the most pressing issues, grouped under the headings of political ascendancy, climate and environmental issues, resources and energy, and the response and policies of affected countries.

Author : Euphemia Vale Blake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626364806

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Journey to the Arctic by Euphemia Vale Blake Pdf

“While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold… I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.” In June of 1871, navigator George E. Tyson and the Polaris sailed forth from New York to pursue an American dream—to be the first expedition to explore the icy waters of the North Pole. Led by Captain Hall, veteran Arctic explorer, and funded with a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Congress, it seemed the Polaris would not fail. But the voyage was doomed from the start: impassable ice-floes, a crew that couldn’t get along, and eventually the poisoning and untimely death of Captain Hall. Finally, as winter approached, Tyson and half the crew found themselves stranded on the Arctic ice, incapable of reconnecting with their ship. They would not be rescued for six months. Through Tyson’s detailed notes and a journal written upon the ice, Journey to the Arctic tells the harrowing tale of survival, slow starvation, and of men turned wild in frigid climes. This definitive edition includes original engravings of the explorers and their findings, charts and maps of their journey, and a new introduction by famed adventure essayist and Arctic exploration expert Peter Stark.

Author : Nicola Baxter
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 0789460955

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Mission to the Arctic by Nicola Baxter Pdf

An exploratory team leaves the LEGO Space Port Centre for the North Pole to search for meteorites.

Author : Z. A. Mudge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385214491

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Arctic Heroes by Z. A. Mudge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385365575

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Arctic Heroes. Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations From the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin Embracing Sketches of Commercial and Religious Results by Zachariah Atwell Mudge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015055313897

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Arctic Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

One issue each year devoted to the annual report.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Atmospheric ozone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045209744

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Arctic and Antarctic Ozone Depletion by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space Pdf

Author : Gary Roughead
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781437988888

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Report to Congress on Arctic Operations and the Northwest Passage by Gary Roughead Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : MINN:31951D03586388A

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Defending U.S. Economic Interests in the Changing Arctic by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Kristina Schönfeldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509915774

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The Arctic in International Law and Policy by Kristina Schönfeldt Pdf

The Arctic is an increasingly important region faced with major challenges caused not only by the effects of climate change, but also by a growing interest in its living and non-living resources, its attraction as a new destination for tourism, and as a route for navigation. It is not only the eight Arctic States that have paid an increased level of attention to the region; several non-Arctic actors from Asia and Europe also seek to gain more influence in the High North. At the same time, the evolving law and policy architecture for the Arctic region has recently played a more prominent role in the political and academic debate. Unlike Antarctica, where the coherent Antarctic Treaty System governs international cooperation, the legal regime of Arctic affairs is based on public international law, domestic law, and 'soft law'. These three pillars intersect and interact making Arctic governance multi-faceted and highly complex. This book provides an analytical introduction, a chronology of legally relevant events, and a selection of essential materials covering a wide range of issues-eg delineation and delimitation of maritime boundaries, environmental protection, indigenous peoples' rights, shipping, and fisheries. Included are multilateral and bilateral treaties, UN documents, official statements, informal instruments, domestic laws, and diplomatic correspondence.