The 70th anniversary of the high-latitude polar expedition on the icebreaker «North Pole» (1946)
Abstract
In 1946, by decision of the Main Directorate of the Northern sea route the All-USSR Arctic Institute had organized a large comprehensive East high-latitude expedition on the icebreaker «North Pole» leased from the USA. The expedition consisted of 35 scientific staff members of different specialties. However, full implementation of the expedition plans failed due to extremely unfavourable ice conditions in the Arctic basin after a period of warming of 1920-1930s. The icebreaker moved about 800 km to the North along the meridian of Bering Strait and was faced with an insurmountable barrier of perennial ice. An attempt to move to the West, passing to the North of Wrangel island, had led to long-term drift in the ice cluster in the East of the East Siberian sea. Despite these setbacks, the research had significant scientific and practical importance. For the first time the comprehensive oceanographic study of the Chukchi sea was carried out, the Ayon ice cluster regime was investigated etc.
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Isachenko A.G. The 70th anniversary of the high-latitude polar expedition on the icebreaker «North Pole» (1946). Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society. 2016;148(3):84-91. (In Russ.)
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