“Breaking News” Guess who made the big TV screen in the Explorer Lounge.
Overnight we made good progress towards Cambridge Bay and arrived a little before 07:00.
Cambridge Bay is a typical Inuit settlement with the essential ‘honey trucks’, collecting sewage and their counterparts delivering fresh water and fuel oil. The buildings are raised above the ground to protect the permafrost and after some 3 hours of exploration we were back on board and ready for the next art of the transit.
Another Amundsen Exploration is centred here. Abandoned in Cambridge and frozen into the ice in 1926 was the original Maud. This was the ship that he used to transit the Northeast Passage and having been abandoned here was salvaged and taken to the Oslo Fjord in 2016 -17 before being preserved in 2018 in its home town of Volen.
Around 7:00 p.m. we rendezvoused with the sister ship Fridtjof Nansen and transferred supplies before making our own ways east and west.
