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Originally Posted by octothorp
Right, I'm just having trouble visualizing what route this would involve. I mean, we aren't talking about going straight across the pole, right? Is it really that much easier to go from Churchill through the Hudson straight, around the southern tip of greenland, and then north again toward Russia, as opposed to shipping to Thunder Bay, out the St. Laurence, and then north to greenland? Or going the other way, keeping a path around the Boothian peninsula and then west to Siberia... wouldn't it be simpler to go from Vancouver north to the Bering Straight and then along the Russian northern coast?
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I'm literally just looking at a map on the wall and I don't know anything about this subject, but it looks like going from Churchill to, for example, Murmansk would be a much shorter/cheaper/faster trip than going on the same cruise from Thunder Bay.
I would imagine the Russian northern coast is locked up pretty tight almost year round while the north atlantic is passable, save a Leonardo Di Caprio nemesis or two.