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Mirny sails close astern of Vostok, both ships holding the same course toward the ice. the ice wall fills the horizon directly ahead of both ships, its lower edge meeting the grey sea in an indistinct line. The ice wall stretches unbroken for miles across the entire horizon, reducing both three-masted sloops to small dark shapes against it. It is 27 January 1820, a contested civil-calendar date, Southern Ocean near Antarctica: Imperial Russian Navy sailors in heavy grey wool watch coats, fur caps with ear flaps, and thick mittens, dressed for an 1819-1821 sailing circumnavigation; oak and pine hull timbers, tarred hemp rigging, reefed canvas sail, iron chain and blocks; sail-powered naval sloops navigated by dead reckoning and lead-line soundings alone, decades before engines or dedicated polar equipment existed. 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