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Day 35: Re-entry
Day 36: A day in bear country
Day 37: Into the Barents Sea
Day 38: Stay tuned.
Day 39: Voyage to the Arctic
Re-entry
Day 35, posted August 5, 2007
by Lonny Lippsett , photos by Chris Linder
After five weeks in the Arctic ice pack, the icebreaker Oden will reach the edge of ice pack Sunday, Aug. 4, cross a cryological boundary, and enter open waters. Starting yesterday, we began to see the writing on the waters.
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