Tag: pack ice
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A tiny Arctic outpost reframes the law around Jeannette Island
Named from a disaster, fixed in ice Far above the Siberian mainland, where the Laptev and East Siberian seas merge into a long regime of pack ice, Jeannette Island rises as a dark, abrupt interruption in a white world. It belongs to the De Long group in Russia’s New Siberian archipelago, and even by high-Arctic…