THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING IN THE ARCTIC, OPENS UP THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE TO CRUISE SHIPS


A cruise company is advertising a cruise in August 2013 which starts in Iceland & ends up in Alaska via the Northwest Passage. Such is the rate of summer ice melt, that a route which a few years ago would have been unthinkable, has become feasible.


The ship is scheduled to leave Iceland, pass the southern tip of Greenland, proceed northwards along the west coast of Greenland before turning westwards to pass north of Baffin Island. From there it continues through the Parry Channel to Victoria Island, through the narrow Prince of Wales Strait, into the Amundsen Gulf & Beaufort Sea & to Alaska.