Une mer libre de glace au Pôle Nord : mythe, rumeur ou réalité ?

• Published in: Géocarrefour
• Main Author: Rémy, Frédérique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Association des amis de la Revue de géographie de Lyon 2019
• Subjects: Arctique; mer libre; gel de l’eau; climat polaire; Buffon; August Petermann; Gustave Lambert; Gulf Stream; Arctic; ice-free sea; freezing water; polar climate; litt; geo; Arctique*; Barrière de glace; Pôle Nord
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/geocarrefour.13130; http://journals.openedition.org/geocarrefour/13130

In the 1860s, the idea that there is an ice-free sea around the Arctic pole surrounded by an impenetrable barrier of ice, is revived. This idea, which is based on ancestral records, testimonies, and scientific certainties, takes on an exceptional magnitude when a geographer asserts that the expediti...