- Short doc about the technical difficulties navigating ships and planes close to the North Pole.
- The open waters of the Arctic above North America have been known as one of if not the most difficult regions in which to travel, especially the route known as the Northwest Passage. The want to discover a traversable route of the passage was for a shorter water crossing between the Atlantic and Pacific than existed, especially for the movement of cargo. After many perishing in trying to make the journey and after the islands of the region became officially Canadian in the turn of the nineteenth into twentieth centuries, much of the exploration has been conducted by Canadians and fallen under the purview of Canadian governmental agencies. Even with the route having been discovered and traversed, air travel emerged as a possible alternative in the 1930s, but which had its own challenges and limitations. Many of the challenges have been overcome with technology, most such innovations emerging post-WWII. However, moving large cargo is inherently more economical by water. With many of the challenges of large ship travel having since been overcome (those technological advances highlighted), albeit not totally, the next frontier is water travel above the Arctic in such point to point distances between Arctic nations being much shorter over the Arctic than either the existing Atlantic or Pacific trade routes.—Huggo
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