"THE ICE WAS HERE, THE ICE WAS THERE, THE ICE WAS ALL AROUND. IT CRACKED AND GROWLED AND ROARED AND HOWLED LIKE NOISES IN A SWOUND." --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (from the Ancient Mariner)

For most of the year Wrangel Island lay silent, surrounded by an impenetrable ice field.
We would not know whether our attempt to reach Wrangel would be successful.

It's hard to imagine a place in this day and age where the modern traveller has not yet visited. But that
was precisely where we were headed that August evening as we left Provideniya, Russia, to begin our
epic adventure aboard the R/V Akademik Shokalskiy en route to the Russian Arctic.

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