The Voyage of Sibiryakov , 1932

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Pacific; Taymyr; Vaygach; Sibiryakov; Northern Sea Route; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001826x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740001826X

Prior to the summer of 1932 only three ships had succeeded in traversing the Northern Sea Route: Nordenskiöld's Vega in 1878–79 from Atlantic to Pacific (Nordenskiold, 1881) and the Imperial Navy icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach from Pacific to Atlantic in 1914–15 (Starokadomskiy, 1976, p 180–262). Both of these expeditions were unable to complete the passage in one season, but were forced by ice conditions to winter in the Arctic.