Breaking the Ice: The Northern Sea Route

... National Geographic * Full Event’s Material. * Full Program – As here speakers' long official positions are excluded for readability. * RIAC's Arctic Stats Map Northmost Shortcut – There & Back in No Time: The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest passage between northern Europe and the Asia-Pacific. The entire passage lies in Arctic waters and parts of it are free of ice for only a few months per year. But, aside from occasional blips, there has been a ...