Arctic Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/arctic/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:29:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Pole to Pole in an Electric Vehicle https://mechtraveller.com/2022/05/pole-to-pole-in-an-electric-vehicle/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/05/pole-to-pole-in-an-electric-vehicle/#respond Tue, 24 May 2022 12:31:29 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7508 If you’ve ever suffered from ‘range anxiety’ in an electric vehicle (EV), think what British adventurer Chris Ramsey is about to experience on this epic car journey. Next year, he plans to drive a Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole. I expect he’ll manage ok in the equatorial & […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/floating-igloo-houseboats/feed/ 5 Expedition Cruise Finds 116 Year Old Whaling Ship Wreck https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:31:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3663 Canadian expedition cruise company, One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has helped to find the Nova Zembla, a Scottish whaling ship that was wrecked near Buchan Gulf off the coast of Baffin Island in 1902. Dr. Matthew Ayre and Dr. Michael Moloney, from the Arctic Institute of North […]

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