I received quite the surprise when I finally reached the Arctic Ocean. It was much more frozen than I expected.
Here I am standing on it...
And here I am standing in it...
In the Antarctic they let you swim in the Ocean. This is as far as I could go here. You don't get a natural hot pool either, so probably best not.
The ice was generally pretty mucky too...
Especially with large bits of rust in it.
The record low for Arctic sea ice was last September 13th (2012), when it was 600 miles from here! It will be interesting to see what happens this September.
On September 14th 1984 - only 28 years ago, the Arctic Ice was still at this coastline!
Hmmm! Maybe I shouldn't be driving so much? Although up here I'm easily the smallest thing on the road.
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