Expedition Hope

[...] of the Arctic. This region is actually a swimming ice-covered surface which is floating in the Arctic Ocean. Often the Arctic Ocean is categorized as the smallest and shallowest ocean of the world. [...]

[...] ;s underneath the ice. The Arctic is an ice cap which is more or less floating on top of the Arctic Ocean; there is no actual land! On the other hand the Antarctic is a proper continent where the ice [...]

[...] in the southern region. In summer at the South Pole there is four times less ice (4 million square kilometers) than in the southern winter (20 million square kilometers). Furthermore, the southern [...]

[...] would need to walk a distance of 45,000 kilometers. The Arctic Ocean itself is 14 million square kilometers big, almost as big as Russia. A phenomenon which can be observed since recently is that [...]

[...] of local animals like whales, walruses and polar bears. Especially polar bears depend on the sea ice as they are living on the ice. That’s why this expedition is so important to raise [...]

[...] kilometers). Furthermore, the southern continental ice can be up to 5 kilometers thick, its sea ice only up to 2 meters which almost melts completely in summer again whereas the northern sea ice [...]

[...] Sunday, Felix and the tree are in Spitzbergen to complete the final preparations for the expedition team. In his spare time, Felix gave a speech to students of Spitzbergen School. The Spitzbergen [...]

[...] , Felix was supposed to land in Camp Borneo at 10 p.m. An Antonov 74 carried Felix and the expedition team to the North Pole. Astonishingly, Antonov is one of the few machines that is able to land on [...]

[...] start wondering what that means for the Arctic. Which impact the Albedo effect has on the global climate you will learn here tomorrow! [...]

[...] climate change. Human risks The most serious human risks are there for populations in low-lying coastal areas and on small islands. Extreme storms, floods and rising sea levels will impact their [...]

[...] Eric Phillips in Longyearbean testing gear today @icetrek @arcticmarch @MONTANEuk @SidetrackedMag # [...]