Made da Vinci on melting ice floes
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Made da Vinci on melting ice floes

Nuuk : Greenland | Sep 07, 2011 at 12:47 PM PDT
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A Canadian teen has survived being stranded on an Arctic ice floe

The sea ice in Arctic melting faster than we anticipated just a few years ago. And data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that this year was measured the second-lowest isnivået in the Arctic since 1979 .

In the Fram Strait

In summer, the environmental organization Greenpeace has been on expeditions in the Arctic with the icebreaker "Arctic Sunrise" .On board was the artist John Quigley.

29. August, Quigley put on an ice floe in the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland.

At the melting ice floe recreated his Leonardo da Vinci's "The Vitruvian Man - Vitruvius' - a proportion of study from the block diagram of da Vinci, which was made ​​around the year 1487.

Quigley and Greenpeace wanted the focus on the sea ice in Arctic melting.

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