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The first transit of the Northwest Passage by Russian icebreaker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

John Splettstoesser  and
Beezie Drake Splettstoesser
John Splettstoesser
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1 Jameson Point Road, Rockland, Maine 04841, USA
Beezie Drake Splettstoesser
Affiliation:
1 Jameson Point Road, Rockland, Maine 04841, USA
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In a voyage beginning 24 July in Ulsan, South Korea, and ending i n St Petersburg, Russia, on 21 September 1992, the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov successfully completed an unassisted transit of the Northwest Passage, from Bering Strait to the North Atlantic Ocean. The ship was chartered jointly by Polar Schiffahrts-Consulting, Hamburg, Germany; Blyth and Company Travel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and D.G. Wells Marine Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was marketed for tourists, some of whom traveled the entire distance of 14,120 nautical miles [26,150 km]. Khlebnikov was the fifty-third vessel to complete the Northwest Passage since Roald Amundsen first accomplished it in 1906 (Pullen and Swithinbank 1991, and confirmed by the office of Coast Guard Northern, Ottawa, Canada).

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Polar Record , Volume 29 , Issue 169 , April 1993 , pp. 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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Pullen, T.C., and Swithinbank, C.. 1991. Transits of the Northwest Passage, 1906–1990. Polar Record 27 (163): 365–367.CrossRefGoogle Scholar