With her last ounce of strength, the Nautilus escaped the deadly whirlpools of the Maelstrom and plunged deep into the icy shadows of the North Sea. For days she glided under the jagged pack ice until she found a hidden cave in the Karasik Seamount - a dark cathedral of stone and frozen water.
Here, far from any civilisation, Captain Nemo found refuge, while the eternal ice above them hid every trace of their existence. A narrow shaft in the rock face led up to a hidden opening - a gateway to the surface of the eternal ice.