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When the Russian ice advisor Sergey and I arrived in Vardø, high up in north-eastern Norway, we were looking forward to finally embark on the Stena Polaris—a 65,000 dwt iceclassed tanker. With great excitement, we boarded the small boat that was to take us to the tanker that drifted some nautical miles from shore. We had been warned the previous evening that the weather forecast was quite bad, and we were unsure if we could embark. As we passed the breakwaters, we realized that the small boat could not handle the big waves well. When we saw the Stena Polaris vaguely in the horizon, we could already find that she was rolling quite heavily. After approximately 30 minutes of cutting through waves three to four meters high, we finally made it to the Stena Polaris, or so I believed, because the saltwater spray all over the boat’s windows barely enabled us to glimpse outside.
This chapter is based on original material the author first published online in a series of personal blog entries (http://www.stenanorthernsearoute.com). The author and the editor of this volume worked together to revise these texts, forming a comprehensive narrative and including additional information and illustrations. All photographs published in this chapter were taken by Patrik Svahn.
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Svahn, P. (2015). Through the Northern Sea Route by Stena Polaris: A logbook. In: Keupp, M. (eds) The Northern Sea Route. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04081-9_5
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