A boat that was decorated by then 6th grade student at VilVite, from Kyrkjekrinsen school in Bergen, Norway was found by the Thomason children in the Shetland Isles on June 16, 2024. The area where boat # 5481 was found was Woodwick Beach. It is named such due to the amount of driftwood that comes ashore in this small area. Wookrick Beach is on the west coast of Unst, the northernmost Island of the Shetland Isles in the United Kingdom.
This was the 16th 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 along side its parent Arctic buoy by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have now been 16 boats found from that deployment.
Boat Number | 5481 |
Date Found | June 16, 2024 |
Place Found | Woodwick Beach, West coast of Unst, the northernmost Island of the Shetland Isles, United Kingdom 60.7817306, -0.9326540 |
Found By | Vaila Thomason |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait |
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