Russian North Pole Research Station
May 05, 1955 - Soviet Russia Sets Up A New North Pole Research Station. Built On an Ice Floe.: A new ice-floe research station North Pole - 5 was set up in the Eastern Part of the Arctic late in April by the Soviet Authorities. Within a few days a whole township sprang up amidst high snow-covered hammocks on alarge ice floe many years old. Everything necessary for life and research - tents - dwellings - foodstuffs - and a whole host of scientific equipment were flown form the mainland. The area around North Pole 5 Station is one of the lest explored in the Central Arctic and therefore its study of great value to science. The first group of Polo researchers landed on the ice floe as it passed the point 80 dog. Northern Latitude and 156 dog. 13 Eastern latitude. Now the floe carrying the station is drifting northward having Zig-zagged about 200 kilometers.Photo Shows : The hydrologists tent, Master of Sciences (geography) Z. Gudkovich (right) and n. Shesterikov, hydrologist, working on a sample of bottom deposit taken from a depth of 2, 791 meters at North Pole 5
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