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Sep 29, 2016

Cambridge Bay at the crossroads of history and climate science (2016)

In late summer 2016, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut found itself at the centre of an arctic crossroads of sorts: a pivotal meeting place where ice-bound history is melting into climate science. A week after the first luxury cruise ship sailed through a virtually ice-free Northwest Passage and anchored in Cambridge Bay, the wreck of Franklin’s ship The Terror—abandoned in 1845 due to impenetrable sea-ice—was finally discovered in Terror Bay, just 200 km east.

The coincidence in time and place of these two iconic voyages poignantly highlights how quickly the arctic climate is changing, the need to monitor these changes, and the growing importance of Cambridge Bay as an emerging arctic hub.

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Arctic | ice | Cambridge Bay | climate change | Safe Passage | snowfall | sea ice | Northwest Passage

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Cambridge Bay | community observatory | Nunavut | Arctic | ice | sea ice | oxygen | salinity | ice draft | Greenland Cod | time-lapse

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