Six months ahead of schedule, the schooner Tara, that has been deliberatly trapped in the Arctic Sea Ice to monitor conditions in the winter, is about to enter the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen.

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Etienne Bourgois, director of Tara Expéditions, says, "Tara has fulfilled her mission. These long-term scientific observations accomplished by the Damocles programme could only take place aboard a drifting boat on pack ice."

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