Chapter 380: Arrive in New Olsen

People often see the news about where the whale was found stranded, and after exhausting all efforts to return the whale to the sea, they found that the whale was still dead.
This is because the whales are too heavy. Their ribs cannot bear their own weight on the shore. Only by leaning against the buoyancy of the sea in the sea can they be safe, and it often happens that they break their ribs because of their weight when they land on the shore. It’s not surprising that even if he was sent back to the sea to die.
In fact, Xiao Peng said that Arctic right whales are the rarest whales in the world. This is not true. According to taxonomy, the rarest cetaceans in the broad sense are not Arctic right whales, such as the Jiawan porpoise, The Chinese finless porpoise and the legendary shovel-tooth beaked whale are much rarer than it. Especially the last one, people only know about it on the carcasses of two dead whales accidentally discovered.
What Xiao Pengs caught was a female Arctic right whale. After Xiao Peng saw that everything was normal, he let it go. Arctic right whales need to be more than ten years old to mature and reproduce their offspring, and 25% of the calves die during the growth process. With the help of Spiritualism, this young female should grow up.
Regardless of the long trawling time this time, there were not many fish, only a few cod, plaice and the like, which were only three or four tons. This came from hitting the net by himself, and Xiao Peng did not deliberately search for the fish.
However, Xiao Peng didn't care about the catches. His purpose of coming here this time was the ‘big goldfish’, not the small fish in front of him.
But Wang Hu and others looked disappointed: "Boss, there are too few fish here. The nets that have been dragged for so long have caught so few. We can lose a lot of fish in this net."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Anything is possible in the sea. If there are really fish everywhere, everyone will be fishermen. Okay, let's get up and let Xiaoqiu and Ivan give everyone a good idea. Let’s eat, let’s eat and drink, and go to New Olsen! Everyone can have two drinks at night except for the staff on duty!"
"Long live the boss!" The crew cheered. The people who were depressed due to the poor catch instantly became happy - after floating on the sea for so long, they were finally able to go ashore again.
After a night of driving, the Vladimir finally arrived at New Olsen in Spitsbergen: the location of the Yellow River Station of the China Arctic Research Station.
The Spitsbergen archipelago is composed of many islands, which is the territory of Norway. However, in 1925, 51 countries signed an interesting treaty: the Svalbard Treaty.
According to international practice, if you want to obtain territorial rights to a piece of land, you should meet two basic conditions, namely ‘first discovery’ and ‘effective administration’. But for Spitsbergen, neither of these conditions exist.
The Spitsbergen Islands were first discovered by the Dutch explorer Barents. Unfortunately, he did not have time to return to his country. Due to starvation, cold and scurvy, he died on Novaya Zemlya. He wrote before his death. An expedition report did not state whether he had
have declared ownership of the island’s territory in the name of His Majesty the King
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Ten years later, the British explorer Henry Hudson came here and found a large number of whales and walruses here. Later, the Finnish explorer Jinden Should took people to investigate five times and found it here There are a lot of minerals! Oh. Although Cynden is a Finn, he went to explore here on behalf of Sweden.
With the discovery of the resources here, batch after batch of Europeans came here to start businesses, the most of which were Norwegians and Russians. They hunted whales and bears here, mined mines for coal, and even established a city-state here, which is now Longyearbyen, the capital of Spitsbergen. This is also the northernmost city built by mankind on the earth.
Spitsbergen’s interests are growing, and there are questions about the ownership of this country.
According to the power of ‘first discovery’, it was discovered by the Dutch, but there is no evidence that the Dutch said it was Dutch territory.
In terms of ‘effective administrative power’, Norway and Russia seem to have a heavier weight here. However, in that era, Norway’s national power was limited and Russia was in a civil war and had no time to look around.
This is undoubtedly the best opportunity for the European and American powers who are unwilling to give up the interests of Spitsbergen. In the end, you came and bargained between countries, and finally reached an agreement, which was later the Svalbard Treaty. This treaty makes Spitsbergen the first and only demilitarized zone in the Arctic.
The treaty recognizes Norway’s ‘full and complete sovereignty’, but citizens of each of the contracting states can enter autonomously. Engage in legitimate production and business activities within the scope of compliance with Norwegian law.
Huaxia is also a signatory to this treaty. Therefore, Chinese people can enter the Spitsbergen Islands at will, live and work here, even without a visa.
Therefore, China’s only Arctic scientific research station ‘Yellow River Station’ was established here.
Standing on the dock to greet everyone, it was the station master and others at the Yellow River Station.
Coincidentally, this stationmaster was also surnamed Yang. After Yang Meng knew about it, he would not let go of his neck, not to mention that this was the talent of their old Yang family, and no one should rob him, making everyone laugh and cry.
Under the leadership of stationmaster Yang, Xiao Peng visited this small town located in the Arctic Circle.
New Alesund is not big, you can walk all over the city in 15 minutes. There are only more than sixty two or three-story small buildings. In fact, it is also a science city with complete scientific research facilities. More than a dozen countries have set up research stations again, and this is a base for scientists from all over the world to conduct Arctic research. Huaxia rented a house in Science City here in 2004 and established a scientific research station.
Here, as long as you are willing to pay more, you can rent more and renew the rent. The heating and power lines in the room are already in place, and the tenant only needs to install and set up their own scientific research equipment. However, don’t think it’s easy to set up a scientific research station here. The cost here is terrible. The photoelectric fee is equivalent to 300 yuan per kilowatt-hour. As for other expenses, they are terribly high.
After all, this is a city in the Arctic Circle. It is extremely difficult to construct everything, and it is understandable that the prices are expensive.
Station Master Yang took Xiao Peng and Yang Meng to a two-story red building: "Captain Xiao, this is the New Alesund Complex. I will show you the management staff here."
Several people walked to an office door and knocked on the door: "Please come in." A man's voice came from the room.
Station Master Yang opened the door, and inside stood a tall and burly middle-aged man. Seeing Station Master Yang walked in, he smiled and said hello: "Station Master Yang, what brought you here? Huh? These people seem to have a pretty face, are they all your friends?"
The stationmaster Yang introduced: "Al, these are our compatriots in China. They said that they had a few tons of fish and wanted to give it to us, so I brought them."
When Al heard this, his face was joyful, and he and Xiao Peng embraced warmly: "Introduce myself, my name is Al Harrodson, you can call me old Al. Wow, it’s incredible to think about it, Huaxia’s Here comes the fisherman? You are really brave people! Just like our ancestors."
"Your ancestors?" Xiao Peng questioned, why did you praise yourself for being tied to your ancestors?
Al pointed to a painting on the wall and said, "This is my ancestor, Anfield Harold, the great Viking!"
Seeing old El’s proud face, Xiao Peng didn’t know where to start complaining, your great ancestor? Isn't it a pirate? Why are you so proud to mention him?
It feels like someone in China offered a big photo of their ancestors at home, and proudly introduced him to Xiao Peng: "This is my grandfather, who was a bandit in Xiangxi, and was later destroyed by the state". Where can I be proud of here? I have to say that this is the difference between Eastern and Western civilizations.
However, Old Al’s name is a standard Viking name. His ancestor’s surname is Harold, and his descendants’ names are followed by the suffix Sen, which means Harold’s child. The name of the Viking is so simple and rude.
Xiao Peng looked at the excited expression of Old Al, and had to follow him: "Oh, Vikings are brave adventurers!"
When Old Al heard this, he was full of excitement: "Right? Master Yang, you Chinese compatriot is much better than you! He knows the true meaning of our Vikings, we are not Vikings, we are just explorers."
Now even Xiao Peng didn't know how to answer the call. Although the word ‘Viking’ in the Icelandic native language means adventure at sea, the way of adventure of the Vikings is really a bit domineering, which is to snatch, and again at sea.
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "At that time, the Vikings were indeed sea explorers. There is strong evidence that the Vikings had arrived in Newfoundland five hundred years before Columbus discovered the New World and explored some of them. North America region."
After hearing this, Old Al was so excited, he took Xiao Peng’s shoulders: "You are a friend of our Vikings, and I welcome you on behalf of New-Alesund! Today I’ll have two drinks with you anyway! Tonight, at the bar, I Please! I let you know more descendants of the Vikings!"
There are so few people in New-Alesund, but there are indeed bars, but they only open on weekends. This is the only official entertainment in New-Alesund, as for private. . . . . . As soon as Xiao Peng went ashore, he saw a few scientific expedition players who did not know which country were playing football there. In New-Alesund, off the beaten track, people will go crazy if they don’t entertain themselves.