Arctic summer shipping lanes
The Arctic Ocean will never be ice-free in the winter, but summer shipping lanes -- depicted here in this 2004 map -- will last longer and penetrate more deeply in the future.
From "The World in 2050" by Laurence C. Smith. Reprinted by arrangement with Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Copyright (c) 2010.
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