Hiking Group Finds Boat in Breiðavík in East Fjords

On July 20, 2025 a hiking group of Bjarnheiður Kristinsdóttir, Sesselja Bjarnadóttir and Ólafur Áki Ragnarsson found boat #5011 on the beach in Breiðavík in the east fjords (Austfirðir), Iceland.

This was the 24th boat of the 500 that were sent to the North Pole from VilVite, Bergen Science Centre. During 2022 Float Your Boat collaborated with VilVite, a science museum in Bergen, Norway. VilVite cut and branded hundreds of wooden boats and had them decorated in various learning programs. This boat was deployed alongside its parent Arctic buoy by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have now been 24 boats found from that deployment.

Boat Number	5011
Date Found	July 20, 2025
Place Found	Breiðavík in the east fjords (Austfirðir), Iceland 65.4614058, -13.6594129
Found By	Bjarnheiður Kristinsdóttir, Sesselja Bjarnadóttir and Ólafur Áki Ragnarsson
Date Deployed	July/August 2022
Who Deployed	Le Commandant Charcot
Deployment Location	North Pole
Track Taken	North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait
Decorated by	VilVite Science Center student

beach in Breiðavík in the east fjords (Austfirðir), Iceland

beach in Breiðavík in the east fjords (Austfirðir), Iceland