Reading about the Jeannette artifacts, Nansen wondered if the strong east-to-west current over the Arctic could be ridden to the North Pole—or at least close. And so an idea was hatched.

看过这些物件后，南森想知道，究竟他能不能乘着北冰洋里这股强大的东西方向洋流去到北极或者起码是接近北极的地方，于是一个想法诞生了。

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A new study has revealed that the Arctic Ocean's permanent blanket of ice around the North Pole has thinned by more than 40% since 2004.

一项新的研究揭示出，北冰洋中北极附近的永久性冰盖自2004年以来已经变薄了40%以上。

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The question of who owns the Arctic is still very much unclear with the five Arctic powers the US, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway all jostling for 'pole' position.

在北极圈以内的美国、加拿大、俄罗斯，丹麦和挪威五国中，谁能拥有北极的问题仍然不清楚。

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The bear he says brings that message home. "It gives people an opportunity to connect with literally the processes that are going on up on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole which is melting,"

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The Geographic pole is the top of the axis on which the earth spins, the Magnetic pole is where the compass points to, and the Arctic pole is the point on the Arctic Ocean furthest from any land.

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Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.

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Deep inside the Arctic Circle, far closer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Svalbard is at once one of Europe's last intact wilderness areas and the world's most accessible slice of the polar North.

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