Tara expedition

File:Tara - Brest 2008-3.jpg Schooner Tara in Brest's Harbour.
Career
Name:	Antarctica then Seamaster currently Tara
Builder:	SFCN Villeneuve-la-Garenne
In service:	1989
Homeport:	Lorient, France
General characteristics
Type:	Schooner
Displacement:	130 t (128 long tons)
Length:	36 m (118 ft)

The Tara Expedition is a research expedition through the ice of the Arctic. The polar schooner Tara was to drift in the ice for approximately two years from its departure, late in August 2006. In the community of oceanography it is met with great interest especially in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-2008).

You can look at the drift of Tara in Google Earth, and even compare it to forecasts available for its drift. You can also compare it with some of the previous ice drift expeditions through the arctic ice (Fram by Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1896 as the first one).

See also

• Fram
• Georgy Sedov expedition
• Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations
• List of schooners

References

• Tara expeditions home page
• International Polar Year
• Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center forecasts in Google Earth
• Polar View at Oersted-DTU (Technical University of Denmark)