At this time, the ship's correspondent said loudly: "Captain, we have contacted Alet, and they are very welcome to come over. ” Gege smiled and nodded at Captain Andre, a look of anticipation on his face.
As for Yang Jing, he just shrugged his shoulders, his attention was not on this at the moment, because when he searched for "Alert" on his mobile phone, he suddenly found that the location of this northernmost settlement of mankind actually coincided with the position of the black six-pointed star in the nautical chart drawn by "Sea Serpent" Boardman.
"Chandler, 108 on the left side, five knots, we will follow the coastline on the left, and when we reach the appointed place, we will drop anchor."
Chandler was the pilot of the ship, and the captain was more often than not in charge of the ship himself.
Yang Jing whispered to Gege: "You play here first, I'm going back to the room, there is something that needs to be confirmed." ” Gege nodded his head, and Yang Jing turned around and walked out of the cockpit and returned to his room.
Back in the room, Yang Jing took out the pirate nautical map from the space, and then compared it with a map of Canada, which was really the case.
Isn't this nautical chart drawn by Mr.
Boardman more than 300 years ago, the position of the black six-pointed star, at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island?
Of course, Boardman's nautical chart is very rudimentary, but no matter how rudimentary, some of the most basic things of his nautical chart are relatively accurate, such as the North American continent, such as Greenland, and then the Smith Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
The black six-pointed star on the nautical chart covers a relatively large area, and when compared to a modern accurate map, this six-pointed star covers not only Shelleyton Point at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, but also more than half of the Coutinier Park National Park.
A tiny six-pointed star is not very large, but the area covered on this chart is much larger.
According to Yang Jing's estimate, the six-pointed star painted by Mr.
Boardman must cover an area of at least a few thousand square kilometers!
What a cheat!
Boardman, this guy is really cheating!
You said that you left such an unknown nautical chart, but you still have to draw such a black six-pointed star for Mao?
Why don't you mark a dot?
Why use his sister's six-pointed star to mark it?
You can draw small dots, is it because you are afraid that people will not see it or something?
Yang Jing didn't think about this before, but now that the matter is coming to an end, he realizes that the nautical chart left by Boardman is really a bit of a cheat!
Even if you have the Eye of the Sky skill, it is not easy to search such a large area.
There was a knock on the door, and Yang Jing said without replying, "Please come in, they are not locked." ” The door was pushed open, and Chris Barton and John Bruno walked in.
"Oh, I'll just say, the boss must be here."
John Bruno smiled and said to Chris, who explained, "Boss, we didn't see you in the cockpit just now, so we came looking for you." ” "It's okay, there's no need to be so nervous on the boat.
We are now in the Arctic Ocean, and there is not a single ship within a few hundred nautical miles around, what are you worried about?
By the way, you two are here, I think we have a problem, and I need you to help me with it. ” Chris and John walked over and saw the parchment nautical chart that was placed alongside a map of Canada.
"What's wrong boss?
What's so hard about you?
” Yang Jing shook his head helplessly, pointed to the black six-pointed star and said: "The area covered by this six-pointed star is too big, if it is converted into the actual area in reality, it must be thousands of square kilometers, how can we find the real location represented by this six-pointed star?"
” Yang Jing pointed out the window, "Although it's July now, the temperature here is still too low, and there will be a snowstorm from time to time, such a large area, we can't find it." ” Chris also frowned and stared at the two maps, and after a long time, he also shook his head and said: "Boss, this is indeed a difficult problem, if we use a tracked snowmobile, it will take at least twenty days to complete the search of such an area.
And in this kind of weather, I am afraid that snowmobiles cannot be used on land. ” Land temperatures are rising much faster than the oceans, so the tundra is starting to turn green in some of the lower elevations of Ellesmere Island, although there is still nearly half a metre of ice in the Arctic Ocean.
In most areas of the coast, the snow has melted.
In this case, it is no longer possible to use a tracked snowmobile.
Bruno hugged his arm and said, "Chris, have you forgotten that we still have a big guy?"
That thing can fly. ” "I haven't forgotten," Chris said, "but that thing can only fly in the sky, and it can't be searched carefully on the ground."
It would have been quick to do that, but it would have been impossible to discover the exact location that the six-pointed star represented. ” Yang Jing's eyes lit up when he heard Bruno's words, and he slapped his head, why did he forget the helicopter?
For others, it is almost impossible to search for a hidden location on the ground with a helicopter, but for Yang Jing, it is relatively easy to use a helicopter to search for the precise location of a pirate treasure hiding place at high altitude with a large-scale search skill such as "Sky Eye".
After thinking about it for a while, Yang Jing spoke up to stop Chris and John's argument, "You two don't need to say it, this matter is settled, we will search by helicopter."
A general location is determined before a ground search is conducted. ” Hearing Yang Jin say this, John raised his chin at Chris, and Chris made a gesture of surrender with both hands, "Okay John, you won this time." ” After deciding on the search method, Yang Jing's mood became very good.
At this time, he realized how reliable it was to rent a well-equipped polar research ship.
If you charter ordinary ocean-going freighters, then these ocean-going freighters are usually not equipped with helicopters, so you can really be blind when you encounter this situation.
Not only here, but also the search for the treasure of the last tsar in the back is also inseparable from this helicopter.
The treasure map of the last tsar drawn by Kuvaevich Antonov is only a general location, and it is really difficult to find the exact treasure cache if you use ordinary methods, and it is not uncommon to even return empty-handed.
Now with this helicopter, finding the exact spot is almost a certainty.
Yang Jing, who was in a good mood, took a group of people to the cockpit and watched the operation of the Blue Whale anchoring and stopping the ship throughout the whole process.
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The Blue Whale has a full load displacement of 1.85 million tons and a draft of 89 meters, and now although the Blue Whale is not fully loaded, the draft is close to 8 meters, so the big ship can only be docked at sea level a few kilometers away from the coastline.
Here, the freezing of the sea has disappeared, and the closer the sea is to the land, the faster the ice melts.
However, because of the lack of land, some vehicles, such as off-road vehicles, could not be transported to land, and they had to use assault boats and helicopters to get people ashore.
The first assault boat was filled with all kinds of ingredients, in addition to the pilot and three crew members.
Since they were going to Alett as guests, they could not go empty-handed.
The second assault boat was full of people, except for the people left behind on the Blue Whale, the rest of the people could be done with one assault boat and a helicopter.
In fact, from here, you can already see the Canadian flag flying high above Alert with a telescope, and on the shore, there are more than a dozen people standing there waiting for the arrival of the assault boat.
A few kilometers of sea surface at the speed of the assault boat, it took a few minutes to arrive, and after the second assault boat that Carl Morris and they were on the shore also landed, Yang Jing and Gege and the four bodyguards flew directly to the Alert camp by helicopter.
It is worth mentioning that the helicopter pilot was Chris.
He didn't feel comfortable handing over the helicopter to someone else to drive.
As the northernmost settlement of human beings on this planet, Alet covers a small area, with a radius of only about a hundred meters, and there are less than twenty large and small buildings.
About 150 meters north of the camp is the camp's oil storage area, where eight large oil tanks stand.
About 15 kilometres further north is the airstrip in Alet.
The airfield was carved out of the tundra, and the runway was 1,500 meters long, enough for a large C-130 transport plane to take off and land.
There is no port in Alert, and if you usually send supplies or personnel here, all that is left is primitive dog sleds, except for airplanes.
However, dog sleds are now mostly used by adventurous people, and airplanes are still Alet's main means of supply.
It's just that the location of Alette is too far north, and the climate here, especially in the cold season, is very harsh, and it is not so easy to replenish by plane.
It is said that since the establishment of the base, two planes have crashed while transporting supplies to the camp, resulting in a total of 14 deaths.
So, although Alat Airport is the northernmost airport on the planet, the utilization rate of this airport is very low.
Unless necessary, the airport is almost never in use.
In this case, the ten crew members on the Blue Whale, including Captain Andrei Milakinov, plus Yang Jing and their group of fifteen, came to the northernmost human settlement in the world!
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