The scientists say the average Arctic sea ice extent last month was about five million square kilometers.
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It was the Navy which introduced Jackson to the ice sport five years ago when former bobsleigh driver and fellow Royal Marine Lee Johnston suggested he should give it a go.
He relates, at length, the story of the Little Ice Age, the five-hundred-year period, in the early modern age, when Europe was colder than it has been since or was before.