Boat # 5140 was reported by Bergvin Sævar Guðmundsson on September 27th. It was found in Munaðarnes, 524 Norðurfjörður, Iceland.
This was the 19th 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 have been 19 boats found from that deployment.
Boat Number | 5140 |
Date Found | September 27, 2024 |
Place Found | Munaðarnes, 524 Norðurfjörður, Iceland 66.0799, -21.6187 |
Found By | Bergvin Sævar Guðmundsson |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait |
Decorated by | VilVite Science Center student |
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