Compléter 170-testVersion en ligne 170-test par Farhad Key 1 alumnus aboard issue late become board growing alumni expeditions Inuit This summer , 41 UBC and friends participated in to the Canadian Arctic and the legendary Northwest Passage . Presentations , conversations and learning accompanied their exploration of the great outdoors the Russian - flagged . Akademik Ioffe , designed and built in Finland as a scientific research vessel in 1989 . Her bridge was open to passengers virtually 24 hours a day . Experts on presented on topics including climate change , wildlife , culture and history , and early European explorers . UBC professor Michael Byers presented on the of Arctic sovereignty , a cause of debate as ice melts , new shipping routes open , and natural resources accessible . Recommended pre - trip reading was UBC Pierre Bertons book , The Arctic Grail .