The Bermuda Triangle holds nothing over the high arctic when it comes to mysteries at sea. In fact, two of Wintergreen’s favorite arctic adventure haunts, Russia’s Barents Sea and Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands are sites of those mysteries. The first involved Sir Hugh Willoughby, a British sea captain who set sail on the Bona Esperanza [...]
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Ghost Ships of High Arctic
Posted by brucegs13 on June 18th, 2010
Posted in The Arctic, The Tales 
Tags: Actic Tales, Adventure Travel, Arctic, arctic adventures, Barents Sea, Barrack Obama, Bermuda Triangle, Bona Esperanza, Captain Edward Belcher, Explorer, Ghost Ships, HMS Resolute, Jackie Kennedy, Northeast Passage, Polar Advenure Travel, President Hayes, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Queen Victoria, Resolute Bay, Resolute desk, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Svalbard 
No Comments »A Tragic Arctic Love Story
Posted by brucegs13 on May 26th, 2010
An Arctic tale discovered, researched and told by Paul Schurke In 1897, three Swedish explorers led by Salomon Andree took off from the Arctic in a hydrogen-filled balloon named the Eagle in an attempt to fly over the North Pole. Sadly, they were never seen alive again. But the tragic story gained a romantic twist [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Arctic, Explorer, Love Story, North Pole No Comments »
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