Tara expedition

The Tara Expedition is a research expedition through the ice of the Arctic. The polar schooner was to drift in the ice for approximately two years from its departure, late in August 2006. In the community of oceanography it is met with great interest especially in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-2008).

You can look at the [http://www.seaice.dk/damocles/Tara/Tara.kml drift] of Tara in Google Earth, and even compare it to [http://topaz.nersc.no/GE/TOPAZ_Tara_drift.kml forecasts] available for its drift. You can also compare it with some of the [http://www.seaice.dk/damocles/Tara/Drift_stations.kml previous ice drift expeditions] through the arctic ice (Fram by Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1896 as the first one).

See also

* Fram
* Georgy Sedov expedition
* Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations

References

* [http://www.taraexpeditions.org/en/home-tara.php?id_page=1 Tara expeditions home page]
* [http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/launch/ International Polar Year]
* Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center [http://www.nersc.no/GE/ forecasts in Google Earth]
* [http://www.seaice.dk Polar View] at Oersted-DTU (Technical University of Denmark)