Boat #5475 was found by Eggert Petursson on June 25, 2025 at the beach near Árneshreppur, Iceland. Interestingly he found another one few days earlier without any writing not far from this one (66.05404027294544, -21.6812015534314). He stated in his report "Didn't take any pictures at the location, finding weird things on the beach is not that noteworthy."
This was the 17th boat of the 500 that were sent to the North Pole from VilVite, Bergen Science Centre. During 2022 Float Your Boat collaborated with VilVite, a science museum in Bergen, Norway. VilVite cut and branded hundreds of wooden boats and had them decorated in various learning programs. This boat was deployed alongside its parent Arctic buoy by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have now been 17 boats found from that deployment.
Boat Number | 5475 |
Date Found | June 25, 2024 |
Place Found | On the beach near Árneshreppur, Iceland 66.05227918772566, -21.710877315917244 |
Found By | Eggert Petursson |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre |
Decorated by | VilVite Science Center student |
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