As these pictures show, sea ice is forming much more slowly this year around Utgard. We're taking advantage of that to send supplies in by boat (usually it's an airlift job) - we'll dock at Longyearbyen on Svalbard, then follow the large lead you can see on the map north-east as far as we can go. If we get stuck, we'll offload the supplies onto a Sno-Cat. This also means we won't have to extend the runway at Zodiac to accommodate larger aircraft.
(Pictures from https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/)
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