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Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

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Six scientists and six crew will travel next month to Kirkenes, a remote Arctic town in Norway near the Russian border, to begin an odyssey to one of the most inhospitable, inaccessible and least-studied regions on Earth. There, they will climb onboard a futuristic, floating laboratory – the French-built Tara polar station. They will enter a harsh and isolating environment: months of complete darkness and temperatures as low as -50C (-58F).
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Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

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Karen McVeigh Thu, July 2, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. UTC 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tara polar station silhouetted by the aurora borealis in Vassa, Finland.Photograph: Maéva Bardy/Fondation Tara Ocean Six scientists and six crew will travel next month to Kirkenes, a remote Arctic town in Norway near the Russian border, to begin an odyssey to one of the most inhospitable, inaccessible and least-studied regions on Earth.
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‘The Antarctic is the last frontier': The quest to save Shackleton's Endurance

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