A wristwatch buried by an adventurer in the ice at the North Pole three years ago has been found by a boy more than 3,000km (1,800 miles) to the south after it floated ashore near his home on the Faeroe Isles. Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, found the watch, in a small black box, near his home in Famijns, a village of 115 people on Suduroy, the Faeroes’ southernmost island, his mother, Anna Jacobsen, said. It had been buried by Jørgen Amundsen during a trek to the North Pole in 2004. He produced 250 copies of a watch that he designed to withstand extreme conditions in the Arctic, and buried one in memory of his ancestor, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer. ...
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