
The expedition is to an undersea ridge between Greenland and Siberia. Credit: Felipe Dana/AP
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Sweden to lead major Arctic expedition
- Sweden will be in charge of an important international expedition that will try to discover 50 million year old secrets of the Arctic past.
- Professor Katarina Gårdfeldt, Director-General of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, says it is an incredibly prestigious job.
- The expedition in summer 2022 will drill up cores of sediment from the Lomonosov Ridge that runs under the sea, between Greenland and Siberia.