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On January 25, 2026, a very special vessel crossed the Kiel Canal.
The TARA POLAR STATION is a globally unique polar research station completed in 2025 by the French Tara Ocean Foundation.
Measuring 26 meters long and 16 meters wide, the research vessel was en route from Finland to France.
The special ship was developed for a very specific purpose—it is designed to become trapped in Arctic ice and drift with it, enabling scientific research in this extreme environment.
In the summer of 2025, the TARA POLAR STATION began its first test mission in the Arctic. Departing from Lorient, France, the ship met up with the German icebreaker “Polarstern” on July 6, which cleared a path through the pack ice. The station then allowed itself to be trapped in the ice in order to test its behavior, equipment, scientific protocols, and autonomous life in this extreme environment under real conditions.
Later in the year, a second test began in the northern Baltic Sea off Finland, from where the route now led back to France via the Kiel Canal.