Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 640 Bipolar

No matter how big the ocean liner is, it is just a flat boat on the vast ocean.

Bi Fang tightened his clothes and let out a mouthful of hot air. The fog was almost invisible, so he took out the thermometer.

Sure enough, the temperature had dropped to minus nineteen degrees.

Once the temperature is lower than 20 degrees, the mist from Renha will instantly turn into ice crystals.

This is a temperature that is almost impossible to reach in Svalbard. Tens of millions of tons of North Atlantic warm current rushing through the ocean, bringing amazing heat.

Westerly drifting, that is the most powerful warm current in the northern Atlantic Ocean, and it is also a continuation of the warm Gulf Stream.

But after half a day of sailing, Bi Fang has gradually moved away from the influence of the warm current and reached the Fram Strait, where he can clearly feel the loss of body heat.

The strait, which is located between Greenland and Svalbard and is 450 kilometers wide, is a passage from the Greenland and Norwegian seas in the Arctic Ocean, between Greenland and Spitsbergen.

It's named after the Norwegian ship Fram, a Danish-built expedition ship on which the Norwegians became the first people in the world to reach the South Pole.

The ship, which can accommodate a six-person expedition, was sunk in the sea, but was raised again in 1936, and is now kept intact in the museum.

Holding the map in his hand, Bi Fang gave a simple science popularization to the audience in the live broadcast room.

And beside him, there were some other tourists and sailors who gathered around Bi Fang like students, watching him talk with confidence in the Arctic Ocean.

And compared to the previous few hours, the number of people gathered around Bi Fang has decreased by more than half.

Most of them went back to their rooms to rest. On the one hand, it was too cold outside, and on the other hand, they were seasick.

This is a cruise ship converted from an ocean-going fishing boat.

At the beginning, all the tourists were very excited without exception. Everything started with friendly greetings. There were three main topics: What's your name? Where did you come from? What did you do before?

Occasionally someone could be heard boasting about their love affair the night before departure.

Then just a few hours later, the atmosphere on the boat was different, and almost everyone collapsed.

As soon as they sailed into the ocean, someone vomited yellow bile. The plastic bags around them were already empty, and there was nothing to vomit in their stomachs.

Unlike the climax of a roller coaster, which ends in a few minutes, an ocean-going ship is like a 24-hour roller coaster.

Shaking left and right is okay, but I'm afraid of pitching and heaving, like making you play bungee jumping or jumping machines non-stop.

The most uncomfortable thing was the completely irregular shaking. The people on the boat seemed to be turned into a dice in a casino, which was packed in a jar and shaken up and down, left and right.

The tables and chairs in the room slid across this corner and back again. Coupled with the 24-hour roaring noise of the turbines, it will never be quiet.

Only experienced captains will personally tell novices that perseverance is the only cure for seasickness.

eat. If you vomit, then eat again.

When bumping in big waves, the hull will sway close to 30 degrees. It is very difficult to walk on the deck.

The people gathered around Bi Fang have changed one after another.

The Arctic Ocean is full of icebergs floating on the sea. In order to avoid these ice caps flexibly, the hull is only about 70 meters long. There is a little wind and waves on the sea, and it shakes violently. Walking on the boat is like stepping on a steel cable.

At least a small number of people can keep their faces unchanged. Apart from the sailors, the only one who is not unusual is probably Bi Fang himself.

Excellent core strength and balance allow him to walk on the ground, even better than many sailors do, as if the waves did not affect him at all.

What a strange relationship, the Danes built it, and the Norwegian was the captain? A sailor asked.

Yes. Bi Fang nodded with a smile, For thousands of years, human beings have been trying to extend the footprints of discovery to every corner of the earth. Among them, the most fascinating and yearning destination for exploration is the mysterious The ice and snow of the North and South Poles.

In the late 15th century, European explorers wanted to find out the route to Asia from the northwest or northeast voyage. At that time, people already knew that northern Norway was not frozen, so the explorers started their Arctic expedition to find the northwest route , and fought for it for centuries.”

In 1845, the central government decided to set up two huge prizes: 20,000 pounds to reward the first person to open the Northwest Route, and 5,000 pounds to reward the first ship to reach 89 degrees north latitude.

It's a pretty big sum, thanks even to Mr. Newton.

A little girl on the side raised her hand and asked, Newton? What does this have to do with Newton?

Because it was the physicist who established the gold standard in the Central Kingdom while he was at the Mint. In 1717, Newton set the price of gold at £3, 17s, 10p per troy ounce.

In 1717 the price of the pound was fixed in terms of gold. This price continued until 1931, with two interruptions in the middle, but it was not affected in 1845.

To put it simply: in the 19th century, 1 British pound contained 7.32238 grams of pure gold. Today, the price of gold marked on Huaxia coins is about 330 yuan/gram. That is to say, 1 pound is equivalent to more than 2,400 Chinese coins. Now more, the value will be higher.”

During the 80-day trip around the world, the protagonist and his friends bet 20,000 pounds, and the cost of traveling around the world is also about 20,000. According to the way the protagonists spend all the time, 20 million Huaxia coins are not even enough.

The Huaxia currency is also one of the common currencies in the world now. Everyone present can roughly understand its value through Bi Fang's conversion.

Such a huge amount of money naturally moved people's hearts. Explorers from almost all of Europe were mobilized, including Norway and Denmark.

[Damn, more than ten million? 】

[More than that, too many to count]

【A lot of small money】

You are really a polymath, history, geography, climate, it is no exaggeration to say that you are all-rounder.

A man took off his hat to pay tribute. He listened here for several hours, watching the young man speak confidently, and listened with gusto.

You're welcome. Bi Fang smiled politely, and then changed the subject, But it was this huge prize that led to the biggest tragedy in the history of Arctic exploration.

At that time, the Yangguo expedition ships 'Terror' and 'Ghost' were equipped with the most advanced steam engine propeller propellers, and were also equipped with a heating system to resist the severe cold in the polar regions.

The expedition leader was the famous polar explorer John Franklin, but in July of that year, two expedition ships under the leadership of Sir Franklin mysteriously disappeared in the Arctic waters. The 129 elite crew members including Franklin himself have never been heard from again. .”

There was a low cry from a few listeners on the side.

More than a hundred crew members disappeared, which is not a small number.

At this time, the crew looked at the ice sea around them, and even felt a little bit of fear.

They had obviously been here more than a dozen times, and their backs suddenly felt cold, as if there were invisible ghosts watching them.

Until 1903, Captain Amundsen was born, drove Fram to the Antarctic, and became the first explorer to set foot on the Antarctic continent. Bi Fang returned to the topic.

With the lessons learned from the past, Amundsen's actions are even more valuable, and the onlookers on the side praised him.

But Bi Fang's tone hadn't been uplifted for a long time before it became low again.

Actually, there was another captain as prestigious as Amundsen at that time, that is Scott, who also reached the South Pole on January 18, 1912, just over a month after Amundsen landed.

Unfortunately, due to their physical exhaustion and the early arrival of the snowstorm, Scott and his expedition team collapsed on the way home.

Six months later, the rescuers found their remains and a diary left by Scott. Knowing the details of Scott's last expedition, because his diary was written to the last day, the rescuers will They were buried in place and are now deep under the Antarctic ice.

The dispute between Amundsen and Scott at the South Pole has become a swan song in the history of world exploration.

Scott and his team stayed in that cabin forever, and Amundsen became the first person in human history to reach the South Pole.

And the ending of this hero is inseparable from the North Pole in front of us.

Bi Fang pointed to the sea in front of him, causing the gloomy atmosphere to stir up a wave of curiosity again.