This summer, French navigator Anne Quéméré is undertaking a solo expedition across the Northwest Passage in a six-meter boat powered entirely by the sun. She will attempt to journey from Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories to Pond Inlet
This summer, French navigator Anne Quéméré is undertaking a solo expedition across the Northwest Passage in a six-meter boat powered entirely by the sun. She will attempt to journey from Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories to Pond Inlet on Baffin Island in Nunavut, a 3,500-kilometer trip spanning much of Canada’s far north.
Quéméré’s departure will depend upon ice and weather conditions, and her arrival will depend upon how the trip proceeds.
“No one has ever tried to navigate a solar boat in these areas,” she says, “so we have no idea how fast it can go.”
In a blog post on Thursday, she wrote that she remained in Tuktoyaktuk after conditions forced her to abandon her first attempt at departi