Ice - 72° 26’ 08” N 59° 48’ 36” W
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Our route across Baffin Bay on the ice chart dated 31 July 2024 We are heading across Baffin Bay from Aasiaat to Pond Inlet in Canada, avoiding the sea ice that stretches up the centre of the bay. Whether we will make it through the NW Passage remains unknown. The crux of the passage, Peel Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, Bellot Strait and Queen Maud Gulf are still impassable. We are hopeful things will clear but time is marching on towards our drop dead date. We need to be able to traverse this area by mid-August if we have any hope of rounding Alaska to Nome before the autumn gales set in. We do not want to be in the Beaufort and Bering Seas in big storms. This is the area that is currently blocked So, how do we figure all this out? The Canadian and Danish governments produce ice charts for which show the extent and type of ice. They also issue a monthly forecast predicting what will happen by when. We have been watching these avidly for weeks! The ice charts use an