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SINCE Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld in the Vega made the North-East Passage in 1878-79, other ships have followed the same route; but it was not until 1932 that the journey was made in one season. In that year Capt. O. J. Schmidt took the ice-breaker Siberiakov from Archangel to Vladivostok. It is now reported by Science Service that in 1934 the ice-breaker Theodor Lüike, commanded by Capt. Nikolaev, went from Vladivostok to Murmansk in eighty-three days. It should, however, be noted that heavy ice was encountered, and that the passage would have been impossible for a less powerful vessel. These achievements hold out little prospect for an ordinary unprotected trading vessel making use of the route for through passages.
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The North-East Passage. Nature 135, 787 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135787a0
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