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22 2387° 55 16 N139° 21 54 EThe ECORD expedition ACEX was amassive success: <strong>for</strong> the first time everdrilling was undertaken in the centralArctic <strong>Ocean</strong>. It was also an acid test<strong>for</strong> the entire ECORD concept of usingmission-specific plat<strong>for</strong>ms. Two mightyicebreakers were in constant actionaround the drillship Vidar Viking, breakingup encroaching ice floes. The reward<strong>for</strong> their work is a 430-m-long core inwhich 56 million years of climatic historyis stored.
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