A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained...
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Okhotsk Drifting ice station – Research stations built on the ice of the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean Iceberg – Large piece of freshwater ice broken...
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of the dives. The "North Pole-35" (abbreviated as "NP-35") manned drifting ice station was established. On January 10, 2008, three of expedition members...
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stationary. They result from the interaction between fast ice and the drifting pack ice. Level ice is sea ice that has not been affected by deformation and is...
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Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the...
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polar region. Ice stations are constructed on land or on ice that rests on land, while others are drifting ice stations built on the sea ice of the high latitudes...
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from an abandoned Soviet Arctic drifting ice station. Due to the nature of its abandonment as the result of unstable ice, the retrieval of the operatives...
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stations in Antarctica and these bases are widely distributed. Unlike the drifting ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research stations of...
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fully owing to the risk of damage from ice. Skate did manage to surface and make contact with Drifting Ice Station Alpha at 85ºN, 300 nm away. After being...
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drift station that included huts, a power plant, and a runway for wheeled aircraft. The iceberg was a thick tabular sheet of glacial ice that drifted...
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explorer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov in 1915. She was the first Soviet drifting ice station, the culmination of a decade of high-latitude exploration. Beothic...
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adapted into a film of the same name. Drift ice Station Zebra, a British meteorological station built on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea, suffers a catastrophic...
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Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and...
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Arctic Ocean (section Sea ice)
Russian manned drifting ice stations have extensively monitored the Arctic Ocean. Scientific settlements were established on the drift ice and carried thousands...
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series: Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision...
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CFS Alert (redirect from Canadian Forces Station Alert)
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station Drifting ice station (North Pole station) Nanisivik Naval Facility 1,100 km (680 mi) south Station Nord, Greenland Pituffik...
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ships List of Russian explorers Timeline of European exploration Drifting ice station Deep-sea exploration Space exploration Nikolai Pinegin "Arctic, The"...
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including the ones on icebreakers Sibiryakov (1932) and Chelyuskin and a drifting ice station North Pole-1 (1937-1938). In 1942–1948, Pyotr Shirshov was People's...
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Saint Andrew (ship), renamed Murman in 1910 Icebreaker Murman, see Drifting ice station Murman, original name of Rautu-class minesweeper Rautu Murman Murmansk...
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1938 Badygin became the captain of the ice-captured icebreaker Sedov, turned into a kind of drifting ice station. Most of the crew was evacuated, but 15...
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Pole-1 (Russian: Северный полюс-1) was the world's first Soviet manned drifting station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research. North Pole-1 was...
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North Pole (section Ice station)
permanent station at the North Pole (unlike the South Pole). However, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, constructed a number of manned drifting stations on...
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Barneo (redirect from North Pole Ice Camp)
billionaire Frederik Paulsen. Ice Camp Barneo should not be confused with the sequential Soviet/Russian "North Pole" drifting ice stations established by the Russian...
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Ice Age: Continental Drift – Arctic Games (also known as Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games) is a tie-in video game based on the film Ice Age:...
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List of Russian people (section Ice hockey players)
second Soviet drifting ice station North Pole-2, leader of the 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition, founder of the first Soviet Antarctic stations Mirny and Vostok...
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had to be left to drift in its icy prison and was transformed into a scientific polar station. It kept drifting northwards in the ice towards the Pole...
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drifting ice stations. Between 1937 and 1991, eighty-eight international polar crews established and occupied scientific settlements on the drift ice...
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chute allowed safe landings on small ice-floes. 1937 Drifting ice station Soviet and Russian drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration...
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era, such as the first drifting ice station North Pole-1, launched the same year. The drag chute allowed to land safely on the ice-floes of smaller size...
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