Coast Guard Icebreakers Aid Navy Task Group in Arctic Mission. Icebergs assume fantastic shapes after they break from the mother Glacier and start the long, slow journey through Baffin Bay and Davis Strait to threatened the shipping lanes in the North Atlantic Ocean. This one was sighted by the Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind as the heavy-duty icebreaker crunched her way through the ice fields to successfully complete her assignment of bringing supplies, equipment and replacement personnel to the world's northernmost weather station at Alert. The station on the northeast tip of Ellismore Isla
Coast Guard Icebreakers Aid Navy Task Group in Arctic Mission. Icebergs assume fantastic shapes after they break from the mother Glacier and start the long, slow journey through Baffin Bay and Davis Strait to threatened the shipping lanes in the North Atlantic Ocean. This one was sighted by the Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind as the heavy-duty icebreaker crunched her way through the ice fields to successfully complete her assignment of bringing supplies, equipment and replacement personnel to the world's northernmost weather station at Alert. The station on the northeast tip of Ellismore Island in the Canadian Northwest Territories, is operated jointly by the United States and Canada. In accomplishing her task, the Eastwind broke her own previous record (set in 1920) by reaching a point in the solid polar ice at latitude 18 degrees 38 minutes 20 second North, longitude 61 degrees 51 minutes west. Slightly less than 442 miles from the North Pole, this is believed to be the most northerly latitude ever attained by any ship under her own power.
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