A New Zealand-led ship has sailed further north than any other, after it was deliberately trapped in an Arctic ice floe for 15 months.
The ship Tara, led by Wellington researcher Grant Redvers, 34, used the theory of transpolar drift to make a remarkable journey that began in September last year. Tara is traveling high and dry on an ice pack, relying on a conveyor belt-like phenomenon that drives Arctic ice across the North Pole and down the east coast of Greenland. The journey began last year after the specially built ship with a thick aluminium hull was wedged into ice north of Russia. Tara was designed to overcome the crushing power of the ice by a shape that saw it rise up when caught between plates. Tara is expected to soon pop out of the ice floe and into the Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
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