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The North Pole Experience, 1017 Waube Lane, Ashwaubenon, offers “an indoor walk-through, immersive holiday attraction for families.” Children can write letters to Santa and mail it in the ...
Poseidon Expeditions is a United Kingdom company established in 1999. In 2001, it operated the first North Pole cruise aboard the 100-passenger nuclear-powered Yamal icebreaker. In 2003, it operated two cruises to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard aboard the 100-passenger, conventionally propelled icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn.
Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul is a documentary film written and directed by Sebastian Copeland that follows two men's journey to the geographic North Pole in 2009, commemorating the centennial of Admiral Peary's successful 1909 reach. [1]
In 1991, Quark Expeditions was the first consumer-led expedition to the North Pole. [5] The company has the largest and most diverse fleet of passenger vessels in the Antarctic. [6] Quark offers both cruises and land-based expeditions. Expeditions are held on the following ships:
RV Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. Polarstern was built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel and Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, was commissioned in 1982, and is mainly used for research in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Local kids were treated to a North Pole experience at LAX, with a visit from Santa Claus plus local athletes and celebrities.
The book North to the Pole, written by Will Steger and Paul Schurke, was published in 1986. It is a first-person account of an expedition to the North Pole and illustrates how seven men and one woman set out by dog-sled to accomplish the goal of completing an expedition to the North Pole without resupply and only with the help of traditional navigation techniques.
Le Commandant Charcot is a Polar Class 2 rated icebreaking vessel capable of reaching remote polar destinations such as the Geographic North Pole. She features a hybrid power plant powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and 5 MWh electric batteries, capable of briefly driving the ship without engines running. [1] [8] Le Commandant Charcot in ...