Nansen expedition 2013

DUDINKA: Joint Norwegian, Russian expedition arrived in Siberia, repeating the voyage Fridtjof Nansen made in 1913. Today, the Taimyr Peninsula is where traditional indigenous peoples life meets the severe consequences of the industry in Norilsk, Russia’s most polluted city.

DIKSON: Anastasia and Svetlana feel safe when the dogs are playing with them. Just hours before we arrived to this Russian Arctic outpost, a young polar bear tried to enter a house and attacked a man. More polar bears walk the street of Dikson as climate changes shrink the sea ice earlier in the season.

KARA SEA: Ship-owner Felix Tschudi can’t see a single vessel on the horizon as he sails through the strait between the Russian Arctic islands of Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach. No traffic boom yet along the Northern Sea Route.

KARA SEA: Only blue sea in sight for Jan-Gunnar Winther, Head of the Norwegian Polar Institute, as he sails across the very same position where Fridtjof Nansen’s voyage sailed into severe ice conditions in August 1913.

BARENTS SEA: Delimitation agreement with Norway was part of a broader Russian strategy to secure stability in the Arctic, argues researcher Arild Moe as the Nansen Expedition sails through the waters in question.

KOLGUYEV: Russia has produced oil for hundreds of millions on this island in the Barents Sea, but the local Nenets people have not seen much of the income. Today, they were visited by the Nansen Memorial Expedition.

WHITE SEA: The first full day at sea for the Nansen Memorial Expedition was a great mixture of exploring the ocean on the outer deck and learning the history given in lectures on the inside.

ARKHANGELSK: Nothing’s like a farewell party in Russia. So also when the Pomor Capital says “bon voyage” for the Nansen Memorial Expedition that now sails towards Siberia.

ARKHANGELSK: A group of Norwegian, Russian researchers, business people and officials sail out from the White Sea Tuesday towards the Northern Sea Route to mark the anniversary of the August 1913 expedition of Fridtjof Nansen to Siberia.