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Nuclear Ninety North
Eclipse of the Midnight Sun
August 1st, 2008 |
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Departure
2008-07-20 18:27 UTC |
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The nuclear powered icebreaker which was to take us to the Pole,
Fifty
Years Since Victory (or
Fifty Years Anniversary of Victory, or
Fifty Years of Victory, depending on how
you translate
50 лет
Победы) is based
with the rest of the Russian Atom Fleet in the harbour
north of Murmansk. Photography is not allowed
within this facility, so the first pictures I was able to
take were as the ship prepared to cast off for the voyage.
Because of the size and 11 metre draught of the ship, it can
only depart and dock at Murmansk around high tide. Two tugboats
pulled the ship from its dock into the channel.
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