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Northwest Passage Open for Business

Posted By: Charles Pope
Date: Monday, 14 September 2009, at 4:08 p.m.

In Response To: Labor Day Fish Fry (You're Invited) (Charles Pope)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213025/Melting-ice-cap-opens-Northeast-Passage-British-ships.html

Article states that the passage was last open 5,000 years ago. I have to wonder though if it was possible to navigate across the Arctic to the orient during the global warming period of the Viking Age.

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