Jan 12 1976
From The Space Library
Use of dirigibles instead of drifting stations in the Arctic Ocean for polar exploration and scientific studies was advocated by Soviet polar explorer Nikolay Blinov, a staff member of the Leningrad Arctic and Antarctic Institute, as reported by Tass. The USSR had been using observatories set up on ice floes to forecast weather and ice formations on the northern sea route for about 40 yr; the 23rd North Pole station was established on a large iceberg in the last quarter of 1975. Blinov pointed out that the continuously drifting stations, never safe from breakup and melting away upon encounter with warm water, offered less reliability than dirigibles, which could remain over a location for an indefinite time to register data on the "hydrological regime" of a certain area and would be durable and less expensive to maintain. (FBIS, Tass in English, 12 Jan 76)
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