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Hudson Bay Company Voyages

In terms of commercial shipping, the most impressive record of voyages in ice-infested waters, both in terms of length and its successes, is that of the annual voyages by the ships of the Hudson’s Bay Company. For 243 years, fro m 1670 to 1913, 600 voyages were made from London, England, to trading posts in Hudson Bay, Canada. Of the ships involved in the 600 voyages, 18 were wrecked (the majority of these was not sunk by ice; most either ran aground

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About PAME

Pierre-Radisson-from-above-thumbThe Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group (PAME) is one of six Arctic Council working groups. PAME was first established under the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and was continued by the 1996 Ottawa Charter that established the Arctic Council.

PAME is the focal point of the Arctic Council's activities related to the protection and sustainable use of the arctic marine environment. It has a specific mandate to keep under review the adequacy of global and regional legal, policy and other measures, and where necessary to make recommendations for improvements that would support the Arctic Council's Arctic Marine Strategic Plan (2004).

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