Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North collection_Royal Observatory Greenwich The early 1900s were a

The early 1900s were a man’s world

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The Maunders worked in the Solar Department of the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the early 1890s

especially when the Sun was lower – it started to get a darker orange and the pink shades became stronger

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Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North collection_Royal Observatory Greenwich The early 1900s were a'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic circle. Travelling with the crew of Icebreaker Otso, Horatio, whose last adventure saw him embedded on Maersk container vessels for the bestseller Down