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Follow the Daily Route of the Mainstream Last First Rowers 
"Pulling together against Climate Change"
 
here.

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Four modern-day explorers set off July 1st. 2013 to become the first people to row the Northwest Passage in one season - one of the earth's last great firsts. The starting location was two degrees north of the Arctic Circle ( 66° 33′ 44″) at the town of INUVIK on the Mackenzie River and Delta.  The eastward  route follows the North West Passage indicated as the solid yellow line on the map above. The Adventurers are hoping their final destination at the end of the season will be POND INLET (Mittimatalik) a small Inuit community, six degrees north of the Arctic Circle,  at the top of Baffin Island, Nunavut. While it is 2000 km flying distance from Inuvik to Pond Inlet, it is 3000km by row boat! Why undertake such a crazy row boat adventure? All four team members are passionate about their rationale -- to bring awareness to the profound effect climate-change is having on the arctic!
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                           
The dotted yellow line on the map above indicates the more southerly route both Iberville and the English followed while traversing an ice choked Hudson Strait in the late summer of 1697. Iberville's ship was the first to break free of the ice escaping into Hudson Bay, and a final dash for York Factory at the mouth of the Hayes River on the western shoreline of the Bay.  The presence of dangerous ice conditions was a common occurence in Hudson Strait in July and August 1697. How times have changed! 
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