Big Yin off on an Arctic adventure; TELEVISION.Byline: By MAGGIE BARRY BILLY Connolly is following in the footsteps of explorer Roald Amundsen by navigating the Northwest Passage Northwest Passage, water routes through the Arctic Archipelago, N Canada, and along the northern coast of Alaska between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Even though the explorers of the 16th cent. . The Big Yin will use boat, plane, truck and train to cross the 3,200-mile route - conquered by Norwegian Amundsen in 1906 - connecting the Atlantic and Pacific for a TV series. He set off from Nova Scotia Nova Scotia (nō`və skō`shə) [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography with a crew of eight last week and will spend two months along the North Canadian North Canadian, river, 760 mi (1,223 km) long, rising in NE N.Mex., and flowing SE through Okla. to join the Canadian River in the Eufaula reservoir, E Okla. coast inside the Arctic Circle Arctic Circle, imaginary circle on the surface of the earth at 66 1-2°N latitude, i.e., 23 1-2° south of the North Pole. It marks the northernmost point at which the sun can be seen at the winter solstice (about Dec. . The journey is being filmed for a four-part ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). series called Billy Connolly: Journey To The Edge of the World which will be out next year. Connolly, 65, said: "I have a personal liking for the Arctic since I was there before. I love the silence, I didn't know what silence was until I went there. There is a breadth and a height to the Arctic that just has to be seen, felt and heard to be believed. "It is the most extraordinary corner of the world." CAPTION(S): JOURNEY Billy Connolly |
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