The Best Laid Schemes: A Nares Strait Adventure

• Main Author: Humfrey Melling
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2011
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; International Polar Year; IPY; Nares Strait; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Nares; Icebreaker; Nares strait
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/aeafa4b128e747fe9b163c604f019c11

In 2002, oceanographers began a study of Arctic freshwater export via Nares Strait (Münchow et al., 2006). This 550 km channel separating Greenland from Canada is possibly the longest narrow waterway on Earth. Surrounding ice-capped terrain rises above 2000 m. We used the US icebreaker Healy to inst...