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Tara left Lorient yesterday. The new expedition "Tara Oceans Polar Circle" has starded !
Tara Oceans Polar Circle in the Arctic. For a sustainable management of the oceans, join us and sign the Paris Appeal for the High Seas, click here !

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Tara Oceans Polar Circle

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05/19/2013

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The Northern Sea Route and the Northwest Passage: 135 years of navigation history

This summer Tara will circumnavigate the Arctic taking the Northern Sea Route via the Northeast and Northwest Passages. Let’s look at the navigation history of these two legendary passages.



The first to sail the Northern Sea Route along the Russian Siberian coast was the Finn Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld aboard the Vega. Departing on July 4, 1878 from Gothenburg, the ship was stopped by ice just one day before reaching the Bering Strait that separates Russia from the American continent. After spending the winter there without complications, the vessel resumed its course and reached Yokohama, Japan on September 2, 1879.



The first to cross the Northwest Passage via the northern Canadian archipelago was the Norwegian Roald Amundsen aboard the Gjøa. Departing from Oslo on June 16, 1903, he reached Nome on the Pacific coast of Alaska on August 31,1906, after three winters.

Less well-known is that in 1918, Amundsen, triumphant from his conquest of the South Pole, chartered another boat, the Maud, in an attempt to re-do the Fram’s Arctic drift. He didn’t manage to pick up the transpolar current which would have made him drift towards the pole. But after two winters, Maud crossed the Northern Sea Route and reached Nome on July 23, 1920. Amundsen, as well as one of his teammates, Helmer Hanssen, became the first men to have crossed the two mythical passages.



It was not until 2003 that Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel aboard the French sailboat Vagabond managed the feat in two seasons without wintering.



During the summer of 2010, the Norwegian trimaran Northern Passage, owned by Borge Ousland, with Thorleif Thorleifsson at the helm, and the Russian sloop Peter I skippered by Daniel Gavrilov, departed on the same day, and both crossed the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage successively. Initially seen as a competition, the administrative and technical obstacles quickly transformed the race into a friendly cooperation between the two teams.



This is the same route that Tara will take this summer, in the hope of meeting as favorable conditions as those found three years ago.



Christian de Marliave, consultant for many polar missions, and
scientific coordinator of the Tara Arctic expedition (2006-2008).

L'Equipe

  • Etienne Bourgois
  • Chris Bowler

  • Céline Dimier
  • Marc Picheral
  • Christian Sardet
  • Eric Karsenti
  • Romain Troublé
  • Loic Vallette
  • Philippe Clais
  • Martin Hertau
  • Colomban de Vargas
  • Daniel Cron
  • Éloïse Fontaine
  • Gaby Gorsky
  • Stefanie Kandels-Lewis
  • François Aurat
  • Xavier Bougeard
  • Emmanuel Boss
  • Myriam Thomas
  • Yohann Mucherie
  • Jean-Claude Gascard
  • Nicolas De La Brosse
  • André Abreu de Almeida
  • Louis Wilmotte
  • Anne Ghuysen Watrin
  • Marcel Babin
  • Philippe Duflot
  • Michael Pitiot
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Newsworthy

05/18/2013

Exhibition - Tara Expeditions discovery of a new world : the Ocean

05/18/2013

Discover the exhibition "Tara Expeditions discovery of a new world : the Ocean", on the Eric Tabarly Cité de la Voile Esplanade In Lorient, France.

Free entry on May 18th and 19th for Taras departure.
Exhibiton until Septembre 29th 2013.

05/18/2013

Departure weekend of Tara Oceans Polar Circle, new expedition in the Arctic

05/18/2013

Tara will embark in May 2013 to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean via the Northeast and Northwest passages -- a scientific and academic adventure covering 25,000 kms and lasting 6 months. This international expedition will be in collaboration with countries bordering the Arctic Ocean and in association with the Principality of Monaco. To learn more click here

05/13/2013

Taras' new flash

05/13/2013

To learn more about Taras new expedition in the Arctic, click here to read Taras' flash journal. 

04/25/2013

Explore Google Ocean with Tara

04/25/2013

Write "Tara" on the research of Sylviaearlealliance's website
or click bellow

04/11/2013

PARIS APPEAL FOR THE HIGH SEAS

04/11/2013

Discover and sign Paris Appeal for the High Seas !

03/21/2013

OCEANOMICS, funded by Investments for the Future

03/21/2013

03/05/2013

Tara live

03/05/2013

Follow Tara on www.marinetraffic.com

Insert the boats AIS number in the top right corner : 226070000

02/12/2013

Tara in Nowness by Spencer Lowell

02/12/2013

Watch the video here. By Spencer Lowell (3min)

09/10/2012

Tara Expeditions Blogs

09/10/2012

Find Tara Expeditions content in our blogs in several languages: - spanish - italian - portuguese

06/21/2012

Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations speaks to Tara at Rio +20

06/21/2012

Part of the speach :

"Earlier this year, I had the chance to board the Tara Expeditions when it docked in New York.
The crew was really inspiring. They shared so much information with me about oceans and climate change. I am really grateful that they are raising awareness around the world … and I am very proud that the United Nations is supporting them.
As I stood on the Tara that day in February, I stood on the deck and looked out at downtown Manhattan. We were surrounded by skyscrapers but we had a window on the deep blue sea. It was a reminder that our worlds are connected.
I promised the crew that I would continue working with dedication for the planet’s oceans.
Now, Rio has to put more wind in our sails, so we can navigate the waves to a better future.
Let us advance for our oceans and our world."

Rio de Janeiro, 21 June 2012