{"id":3681,"date":"2011-09-10T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2011-09-10T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T06:27:00","slug":"cold-war-sites-on-arctic-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/09\/cold-war-sites-on-arctic-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold war sites on Arctic cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Escape arctic\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources1.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/09\/08\/1226132\/310729-escape-arctic.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/>          <\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i><span>Aurora Expeditions members at Bukhta Legzdina in the Russian Arctic. Picture: Dylan Coker <\/span><\/i><\/span>                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A POLAR bear clambering a cliff face hunting eggs; 24-hour daylight; glaciers mirrored in seas next to fields of flowers &#8230; weird and wonderful things happen in the Arctic Circle. <\/p>\n<p>In these cold reaches Novaya Zemlya is a little-known Russian outcrop of two main islands jutting 1000km in a crescent dividing the Barents and Kara seas. It has been off limits for decades and remains difficult to reach.<\/p>\n<p>In the Cold War, it was a nuclear testing site where in 1961 the Russians exploded Tsar Bomba , the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Tests later went underground, with blasts registering up to 6.9 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/znfipad\/escape-storytemplate\/cold-war-sites-on-arctic-cruise\/story-fn6c8qmd-1226132409503\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Story <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Expeditions members at Bukhta Legzdina in the Russian Arctic. Picture: Dylan Coker A POLAR bear clambering a cliff face hunting eggs; 24-hour daylight; glaciers mirrored in seas next to fields of flowers &#8230; weird and wonderful things happen in the Arctic Circle. In these cold reaches Novaya Zemlya is a little-known Russian outcrop of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aurora-expeditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}