On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 03:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
Lawrence13 wrote:

On Sunday, 22 September 2013 10:39:08 UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
The web-cam of the Barneo ice-station at 83.8N 4.5W yesterday,
shows a

ship in the background. I reckon the buoy is about 80nm from open
water.


http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/18.jpg



Is that purely out of interest Graham -which is nice; or is there a
point.

Just out of interest. After five months of watching a buoy with a ridge
in the background and the only mild excitement being a melt-pond
forming and then draining away, it came as a bit of a shock this morning
to see the ice-breaker in the background. I can only assume it's there
to pick up the buoys and any other instruments before the floe goes
charging off through the Fram Strait.


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Graham P Davis, Bracknell
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