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David Pratt May 2001 Part 3 of 4 Part 3: Polar Puzzles 1. The open polar sea 2. The north pole controversy 3. Polar land cover-up? 4. Flights of fancy 5. Auroras and the poles References 1. The open polar sea Many 19th-century explorers believed that beyond the belt of pack ice at the perimeter of the Arctic Ocean there was an open polar sea, and possibly continental land as well. The idea of an open polar sea took […] Read More
On the existence of ice in the Arctic basin– Dr. Nansen spent two and one half years in the Arctic, and concluded that the ice there did not build-up or freeze there. The Arctic is one and a half times the size of the USA, and over most of the area there is an accumulation of several meters of pack ice and icebergs. This accumulation begs explanation, even considering that there are open polar seas on the Siberian side […] Read More