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…son. As winter started drawing in with ice advancing and the risk of rocks falls from above the ship increasing, the ship was left beached with plans to try and recover it the next summer. However, the ice had other plans and ripped vast chunks off the ship rendering it useless. Each year less of the ship remains. It is possible by 2016 even the remains we saw will have been hauled away by the ice. Petrozavodsk wrecked on Bear Island We were unabl…

…e is there. But do you know the four different approaches to defining what falls into the region? These are: All territory that is above the tree line, the point after which trees cannot grow. As the ground is permanently frozen in the Arctic region a metre or so below the surface, tress cannot take root and so you will never see any. Where the average temperature never rises above 10 degrees Celsius (even in the warmest month of July). The part o…